> > On Nov 29, 2008, at 3:17 AM, Doug Fairchild wrote: > >> This is somewhere around 200 degrees of the circle, probably a bit >> more: >> >> <http://www.theperfectstick.com/billy/> > > Not bad, not bad at all considering it was hand held.
Yeah. I should have used a tripod, but the Zeiss one I bought because it is so super and was at such a great price is a wee bit heavy to lug around very far.
> Photoshop is awfully hard to beat, but I keep hoping someone will > do it someday :) I wasn't aware it was that smart with the > automation to pick out the best parts of each image. 15 frames > sounds like a lot of megabytes, like maybe 500 or more,
634mb to be egzack.
> I'm thinking you had photoshop's engine grunting a bit. You've got > one of those big bad mac pro's don't you?
It's a Dual 2 GHz G5 with 3.5 GB RAM, and 2 160GB drives, which gives it a little more scratch disk to work with ... although I'm not sure that matters for stitching. I should prolly buy some more RAM since it has gotten so cheap. Sheesh. I just remembered how great it seemed to have a PowerMac 7500 with a whole 1 GB disk and 32 MB of RAM, the last 16 MB of which cost me over a thousand dollars.
> My imac would probably flip me the bird if I even thought about it. > As long as your doing landscapes a tripod works pretty well with a > regular head although your doing really well without one. I've > heard the secret is to level the head with an actual level to avoid > angle changes as you turn it.
I bought Stitcher Express a few years ago, and it turned out to be really sensitive about that. But both Calico and Photoshop have been able to take my inadvertent tilts in stride.
> The most impressive pan I ever saw was in the cockpit of an > airliner where they did almost a 360 at close range. It was an ad > for a special head to do it with.
I'll bet. > > What was the focal length of the lens you used for this?
A Canon f2.8 24-70L at 70mm, f/5.6 and 320th of the 60th part of the second. ISO 100. A Canon Digital Rebel. I look at those fancy pro grade Canons and they amaze me, but I don't need all those fancy gimmicks for my work. But I really would like to have a full frame
> My widest is 17-35 2.8, but I'm not sure that is the best for a > merged pan because I think it's distorting things somewhat at 17mm. > $500 lens, but still not great in some aspects. That's for a film > camera though, my digital has a 17-85 that is not near as wide of > an angle due to the 1.65 multiplier.
You don't need a wide angle lens for panoramas. Maybe if you are doing spherical, but I never got into that and don't know. I wish I had one of those 85mm f/2L's. It would be about right. Or a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with its full frame of 21 MPxs.
Or better yet, Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 with one of the new Zeiss lenses. Kind of the latest Minolta top end camera. I have missed my old Minolta film camera and the Zeiss lenses I used to work with. I remember in Stuttgart after the War looking though the glass countertop at a Carl Zeiss 480mm f/4.5 Tessar in a Compound shutter, for practically nothing, and then buying a Bermpohl studio view camera to use it on. I had it sent to Dresden over in the East Zone to have the back remade to use American 8 x 10 film. Not exactly something to carry along on a hike. But the peculiar soft sharpness of the Tessar was unobtainable on any other lens except for the 14 inch Pinkham-Smith I had bought from my old portrait teacher. But I'm rambling.
Can you imagine the panoramas you could shoot with that one?
:-)
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.... Doug
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