Re: Ricoh direct marketing cue wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth

[John Francis]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 05:43:35PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote:
> https://petapixel.com/2022/01/20/ricoh-to-stop-mass-producing-cameras-sell-direct-to-consumer-only/
> 
> As of April 1, 2022 (no fooling) Ricoh will stop selling Pentax and GR 
> branded cameras through the distribution network and will only sell through 
> their own website and branded stores.

As best I can tell that announcement was specifically talking about the 
Japanese market.

More than anything else this sounds a lot like the way computers are sold.  
Sure, I could go to a variety of stores (online or physical) and buy an 
off-the-shelf computer, but I've hardly ever actually done that (the exception 
being a couple of ready-built systems I picked up from Tiger Direct at 
clearance prices). Most of the time I've gone to the manufacturer's web site 
(Gateway 2000, HP, Dell, ...), configured the system there, and had them ship 
it to me.

While cameras today aren't as configurable as computers have been for the last 
few decades, there have been some options (a couple of variants of an otherwise 
identical camera).  And as we see every time a new body is rumoured to be 
forthcoming, we get people posting saying what the camera must have to make it 
desirable as far as they are concerned. If Ricoh could actually offer a system 
where a camera body could be configured in a variety of ways (anti-aliasing 
and/or IR filters, sensor dimensions, pixel count, flip-out screen, screw drive 
focussing, power zoom, fastest shutter speed, ...) might they be able to do 
that and still keep the price reasonable?  I don't know.
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Re: PESOx2: Ultra Colonisation

[Alan C]

Thanks Larry. The photography is not very good - I was just trying to 
tell a story. There are actually 5 species of yellow weavers with black 
faces (Ploecus spp.) - the (Southern) Masked, the Lesser Masked, the 
Village (formerly Spotted-Backed), the Spectacled & the Cape (which does 
not occur in the Lowveld). The females are more drab in colour. Apart 
from the Spectacled which is more solitary, they all build nests in 
colonies. The species may also be identified by the structures of their 
nests, mostly the length of the tunnel at he entrance. Those nests are 
about 50m from the road so I will need to go back with my 500mm Sigma to 
be sure but on zooming they look like Lesser or Village Weaver nests. 
They are parasitised by small Cuckoos, notably the Diederick & Klaus 
Cuckoos. I have witnessed this a few times - the whole process takes 
only about 10 seconds with the birds in the colony kicking up a hell of 
a racket until the Cuckoo has left. There are several other differently 
coloured "weaver" species too. There has been a big renaming project of 
Southern African birds in the past few years because they had different 
names in different countries - they decided on the oldest name. IMHO, 
some of the "new" names are stupid but we will just have to get used to 
them. The Afrikaans names which are in common use have not changed!


Alan C

On 20-Jan-22 09:40 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

On Jan 20, 2022, at 8:08 AM, Alan C  wrote:

The first image is a heavy crop of a full Sable Dam I took on Dec 24th. Note 
the tree at the back overhanging the water. Now, scroll 5 L for another shot 
taken on Jan 15th. In a mere 3 weeks a flock of Masked Weavers has managed to 
construct a huge colony. An amazing achievement for such small creatures. 
That's real productivity!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/51832322454/

Very cool, and if I zoom in I can even see all of the little yellow birds.  I 
had to look up what a masked weaver was.


Both with the K5 & HD 55-300

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Re: Ricoh direct marketing cue wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth

[Rob Studdert]

Australia may have been a testbed of sorts, there's now virtually no
Pentax to be seen at bricks mortar stores or their on-lline portals.
For some years they have been selling direct and they have an agent on
eBay that often undercuts the buy price of retailers (product is
direct shipped from the importers CRK). As a consequence they have
largely faded into obscurity here.


On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 12:44, Larry Colen  wrote:
>
> https://petapixel.com/2022/01/20/ricoh-to-stop-mass-producing-cameras-sell-direct-to-consumer-only/
>
> As of April 1, 2022 (no fooling) Ricoh will stop selling Pentax and GR 
> branded cameras through the distribution network and will only sell through 
> their own website and branded stores.
>
> Meanwhile Petapixel had a review of the 21/2.4 saying it’s a great lens, it’s 
> too bad that the K-1 mkII sucks.
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Re: PESO The Rocks

[Rob Studdert]

Hi Larry,

Yes it wasn't the day I would have picked, some colour in the sky
would have been nice but I had been putting off the shoot due to rain
and that was my best weather window in the allotted delivery time.

You were pretty close, the sidewalk extends into the street a little
at that point, you can see the spot here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.8582383,151.2091308,3a,75y,87.19h,82.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suiQBJENuHxEhSWPoQ4LZkw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Thanks Dan :)

Cheers,

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 13:05, Larry Colen  wrote:
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>
>
> > On Jan 20, 2022, at 3:20 AM, Rob Studdert  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Team,
> >
> > I was in the city shooting façades for a client last month and I took
> > the opportunity to grab a quick shot for myself (have hardly shot
> > anything for myself in the last two years).
> >
> > The image was shot using my pano head with the vertical angle set to
> > optimise the balance between the road and the tops of the buildings.
> > It's a 3 shot x 12 HDR sequence, all assembled in LR using the HDR
> > panorama option. I then used the guided transform tool to set my main
> > verticals and rotation.
> >
> > I had a cut down kit with me which meant that I had to set the tripod
> > level by adjusting the leg lengths so it's not quite right, I left the
> > image uncropped to display the overlap/stitching (and my levelling
> > error).
> >
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c1e66dkukggn68/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano_EXIF.jpg?dl=0
>
> That is wel done.  Looks chilly and gloomy.
>
> It looks like you’re standing a bit out in the road on the outside of a 
> corner.
>
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
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Re: Ricoh direct marketing cue wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth

[Bill]

On 1/20/2022 7:46 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

What the hell are they thinking?


Probably that the K1II is now a 6 year old camera (the K1 was announced 
in Feb 2016) and is due for a refresh.
I don't agree that the camera sucks, but it is getting a bit long in the 
tooth.


bill


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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 8:44 PM Larry Colen  wrote:



https://petapixel.com/2022/01/20/ricoh-to-stop-mass-producing-cameras-sell-direct-to-consumer-only/

As of April 1, 2022 (no fooling) Ricoh will stop selling Pentax and GR
branded cameras through the distribution network and will only sell through
their own website and branded stores.

Meanwhile Petapixel had a review of the 21/2.4 saying it’s a great lens,
it’s too bad that the K-1 mkII sucks.

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Re: Ricoh direct marketing cue wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth

[Daniel J. Matyola]

A company can't just "get someone" to sell its products.  It has to
actively promote the products and develop partnerships with retailers and
distributors.  Ricoh does that with copiers;  why can't it do that with its
cameras?

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 9:08 PM Larry Colen  wrote:

>
>
> > On Jan 20, 2022, at 5:46 PM, Daniel J. Matyola 
> wrote:
> >
> > What the hell are they thinking?
>
> Probably something along the lines of they can’t get anyone else to sell
> their gear, so they might as well monopolize the whole distribution channel
> themselves.
>
>
>
> >
> > Dan Matyola
> > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
> > *
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 8:44 PM Larry Colen  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> https://petapixel.com/2022/01/20/ricoh-to-stop-mass-producing-cameras-sell-direct-to-consumer-only/
> >>
> >> As of April 1, 2022 (no fooling) Ricoh will stop selling Pentax and GR
> >> branded cameras through the distribution network and will only sell
> through
> >> their own website and branded stores.
> >>
> >> Meanwhile Petapixel had a review of the 21/2.4 saying it’s a great lens,
> >> it’s too bad that the K-1 mkII sucks.
> >>
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Re: Ricoh direct marketing cue wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth

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> On Jan 20, 2022, at 5:46 PM, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> 
> What the hell are they thinking?

Probably something along the lines of they can’t get anyone else to sell their 
gear, so they might as well monopolize the whole distribution channel 
themselves.



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> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 8:44 PM Larry Colen  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> https://petapixel.com/2022/01/20/ricoh-to-stop-mass-producing-cameras-sell-direct-to-consumer-only/
>> 
>> As of April 1, 2022 (no fooling) Ricoh will stop selling Pentax and GR
>> branded cameras through the distribution network and will only sell through
>> their own website and branded stores.
>> 
>> Meanwhile Petapixel had a review of the 21/2.4 saying it’s a great lens,
>> it’s too bad that the K-1 mkII sucks.
>> 
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Re: PESO The Rocks

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> On Jan 20, 2022, at 3:20 AM, Rob Studdert  wrote:
> 
> Hi Team,
> 
> I was in the city shooting façades for a client last month and I took
> the opportunity to grab a quick shot for myself (have hardly shot
> anything for myself in the last two years).
> 
> The image was shot using my pano head with the vertical angle set to
> optimise the balance between the road and the tops of the buildings.
> It's a 3 shot x 12 HDR sequence, all assembled in LR using the HDR
> panorama option. I then used the guided transform tool to set my main
> verticals and rotation.
> 
> I had a cut down kit with me which meant that I had to set the tripod
> level by adjusting the leg lengths so it's not quite right, I left the
> image uncropped to display the overlap/stitching (and my levelling
> error).
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c1e66dkukggn68/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano_EXIF.jpg?dl=0

That is wel done.  Looks chilly and gloomy.

It looks like you’re standing a bit out in the road on the outside of a corner.


> 
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Re: PESO The Rocks

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Impressive!

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:20 AM Rob Studdert 
wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> I was in the city shooting façades for a client last month and I took
> the opportunity to grab a quick shot for myself (have hardly shot
> anything for myself in the last two years).
>
> The image was shot using my pano head with the vertical angle set to
> optimise the balance between the road and the tops of the buildings.
> It's a 3 shot x 12 HDR sequence, all assembled in LR using the HDR
> panorama option. I then used the guided transform tool to set my main
> verticals and rotation.
>
> I had a cut down kit with me which meant that I had to set the tripod
> level by adjusting the leg lengths so it's not quite right, I left the
> image uncropped to display the overlap/stitching (and my levelling
> error).
>
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c1e66dkukggn68/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano_EXIF.jpg?dl=0
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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Re: Ricoh direct marketing cue wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth

[Daniel J. Matyola]

What the hell are they thinking?

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>
> https://petapixel.com/2022/01/20/ricoh-to-stop-mass-producing-cameras-sell-direct-to-consumer-only/
>
> As of April 1, 2022 (no fooling) Ricoh will stop selling Pentax and GR
> branded cameras through the distribution network and will only sell through
> their own website and branded stores.
>
> Meanwhile Petapixel had a review of the 21/2.4 saying it’s a great lens,
> it’s too bad that the K-1 mkII sucks.
>
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Ricoh direct marketing cue wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth

[Larry Colen]

https://petapixel.com/2022/01/20/ricoh-to-stop-mass-producing-cameras-sell-direct-to-consumer-only/

As of April 1, 2022 (no fooling) Ricoh will stop selling Pentax and GR branded 
cameras through the distribution network and will only sell through their own 
website and branded stores.

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Re: PESOx2: Ultra Colonisation

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> On Jan 20, 2022, at 8:08 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> 
> The first image is a heavy crop of a full Sable Dam I took on Dec 24th. Note 
> the tree at the back overhanging the water. Now, scroll 5 L for another shot 
> taken on Jan 15th. In a mere 3 weeks a flock of Masked Weavers has managed to 
> construct a huge colony. An amazing achievement for such small creatures. 
> That's real productivity!
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/51832322454/

Very cool, and if I zoom in I can even see all of the little yellow birds.  I 
had to look up what a masked weaver was.

> 
> Both with the K5 & HD 55-300
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Re: PESO The Rocks

[Rob Studdert]

Thanks for the comments everyone! And I agree Rick, I've included the
final cropped image below and a 1:1 crop from that showing the detail.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jgr5efcggtnb4ip/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlo7psvya864kw1/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano-2.jpg?dl=0

Cheers,


On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 01:46, Rick Womer  wrote:
>
> I agree with Paul that it is very striking—I particularly like the lighting, 
> the colors in the building (including the umbrellas), and the sky.
>
> I find the scalloping along the left top and the irregular sides distracting, 
> though, and think it would look better cropped at the sides.
>
> Rick
>
> > On Jan 20, 2022, at 7:40 AM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:
> >
> > Striking image. Well done!
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >> On Jan 20, 2022, at 6:20 AM, Rob Studdert  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Team,
> >>
> >> I was in the city shooting façades for a client last month and I took
> >> the opportunity to grab a quick shot for myself (have hardly shot
> >> anything for myself in the last two years).
> >>
> >> The image was shot using my pano head with the vertical angle set to
> >> optimise the balance between the road and the tops of the buildings.
> >> It's a 3 shot x 12 HDR sequence, all assembled in LR using the HDR
> >> panorama option. I then used the guided transform tool to set my main
> >> verticals and rotation.
> >>
> >> I had a cut down kit with me which meant that I had to set the tripod
> >> level by adjusting the leg lengths so it's not quite right, I left the
> >> image uncropped to display the overlap/stitching (and my levelling
> >> error).
> >>
> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c1e66dkukggn68/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano_EXIF.jpg?dl=0
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >>
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Fwd: All my Pentax K lenses

[Alan C]

Trying again.

I'd gladly suffer it if I was fortunate enough to have one!

Alan C

On 15-Jan-22 09:06 AM, Larry Colen wrote:

On Jan 14, 2022, at 10:42 PM, John Francis  wrote:



I don't have quite as meny lenses on my shelf as Juan does,
but his collection is definitely a lot easier to carry around!

I suspect that his entire collection is easier to carry around than your 
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PESOx2: Ultra Colonisation

[Alan C]

The first image is a heavy crop of a full Sable Dam I took on Dec 24th. 
Note the tree at the back overhanging the water. Now, scroll 5 L for 
another shot taken on Jan 15th. In a mere 3 weeks a flock of Masked 
Weavers has managed to construct a huge colony. An amazing achievement 
for such small creatures. That's real productivity!


https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/51832322454/

Both with the K5 & HD 55-300

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Re: PESO The Rocks

[Rick Womer]

I agree with Paul that it is very striking—I particularly like the lighting, 
the colors in the building (including the umbrellas), and the sky.

I find the scalloping along the left top and the irregular sides distracting, 
though, and think it would look better cropped at the sides.

Rick

> On Jan 20, 2022, at 7:40 AM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:
> 
> Striking image. Well done!
> 
> Paul
> 
>> On Jan 20, 2022, at 6:20 AM, Rob Studdert  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Team,
>> 
>> I was in the city shooting façades for a client last month and I took
>> the opportunity to grab a quick shot for myself (have hardly shot
>> anything for myself in the last two years).
>> 
>> The image was shot using my pano head with the vertical angle set to
>> optimise the balance between the road and the tops of the buildings.
>> It's a 3 shot x 12 HDR sequence, all assembled in LR using the HDR
>> panorama option. I then used the guided transform tool to set my main
>> verticals and rotation.
>> 
>> I had a cut down kit with me which meant that I had to set the tripod
>> level by adjusting the leg lengths so it's not quite right, I left the
>> image uncropped to display the overlap/stitching (and my levelling
>> error).
>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c1e66dkukggn68/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano_EXIF.jpg?dl=0
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
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Re: PESO The Rocks

[Paul Stenquist]

Striking image. Well done!

Paul

> On Jan 20, 2022, at 6:20 AM, Rob Studdert  wrote:
> 
> Hi Team,
> 
> I was in the city shooting façades for a client last month and I took
> the opportunity to grab a quick shot for myself (have hardly shot
> anything for myself in the last two years).
> 
> The image was shot using my pano head with the vertical angle set to
> optimise the balance between the road and the tops of the buildings.
> It's a 3 shot x 12 HDR sequence, all assembled in LR using the HDR
> panorama option. I then used the guided transform tool to set my main
> verticals and rotation.
> 
> I had a cut down kit with me which meant that I had to set the tripod
> level by adjusting the leg lengths so it's not quite right, I left the
> image uncropped to display the overlap/stitching (and my levelling
> error).
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c1e66dkukggn68/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano_EXIF.jpg?dl=0
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
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PESO The Rocks

[Rob Studdert]

Hi Team,

I was in the city shooting façades for a client last month and I took
the opportunity to grab a quick shot for myself (have hardly shot
anything for myself in the last two years).

The image was shot using my pano head with the vertical angle set to
optimise the balance between the road and the tops of the buildings.
It's a 3 shot x 12 HDR sequence, all assembled in LR using the HDR
panorama option. I then used the guided transform tool to set my main
verticals and rotation.

I had a cut down kit with me which meant that I had to set the tripod
level by adjusting the leg lengths so it's not quite right, I left the
image uncropped to display the overlap/stitching (and my levelling
error).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c1e66dkukggn68/001_IMGZ8652-HDR-Pano_EXIF.jpg?dl=0

Cheers,


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Re: PESO - PanESO - Grand Teton

[Rob Studdert]

Hi Igor,

I'm not sure that PS has the same size limitations as LR, the way LR
works is it produces a composite DNG so I think that the issue is
mainly a limit on the RAW/DNG engine (one of my friends is on the LR
dev team so I will ask out of interest). Pano prints are amazing :)

I think my images are hidden from the public, I have to share a direct
link for them to be visible.

I have a pano head but if I'm shooting hand held or just off a
conventional head I tend to overlap by 50%. This typically makes it
easy for the stitcher and it's easy to set by eye, you just place what
was at the edge of the frame in the centre on the subsequent exposure.

Cheers,

Rob

On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 09:00, Igor PDML-StR  wrote:
>
>
> Thank you Rob, Dan, Ann, Subash and everybody else for looking and
> commenting!
> (and to Subash for helping Ann finding the link in my lengthy message.)
>
> Rob, to answer your question:
> I used PS for stitching.
> It was based on 13 individual shots (unless I skipped some
> intermediate ones in the process - due to an excessive overlap).
> I could save a tiff with 32765 on a side, but had to reduce the pixel
> count to about 16000 for the largest jpeg (not shown here).
> Now, I wonder if something like 64000x8000px could have worked
> for the TIFF.
>
> In any case, I have no need for those huge pixel numbers - as I am not
> printing that pano... The question was purely "academic".
> Thinking of which, - it could be cool to have a photo wall paper. :-)
> I just need a large enough wall and wallet to cover...
> :-)))
>
>
> Thanks for sharing the pointer to Gigapan.
> And your image there is great!
> As an aside, the navigation and search there are broken.
> E.g. searching for your name doesn't bring your profile or this photo.
> And, I cannot get to your panorama from your profile page.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Igor
>
>
>
>   Rob Studdert Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:59:20 -0800 wrote:
>
> Nice work Igor, what software did you use to stitch the images? I know
> that LR, though quite capable and by far the best option to assemble
> RAW image files, does currently have a maximum pixel dimension
> (vertically or horizontally) of around 65000px and a maximum overall
> size of 500Mpx total therefore limiting the max image size to around
> 64000x8000px.
>
>
> I did see that original post re-hosting panoramic images but forgot to
> reply. It is difficult to display them in a meaningful way on-line,
> the most practical option I found was the Gigapan site. It's a little
> long in the tooth, clunky and seems to be fairly niche these days but
> it does still work, I put four images up about 5 years back and they
> still appear to be accessible.
>
> http://gigapan.com/gigapans/898e98242e191f917be68fcbf6230da4
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2022, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
>
> >
> > I've written this message almost 1.5 years ago, but never sent it...
> > I did this back in August of 2020, but than I was struggling with the
> > presentation of the panoramic photos (here is the thread:
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/pdml@pdml.net/msg780894.html ), and I've never
> > followed up on that.
> > So, I am just presenting it as is, as a huge Jpeg file.
> >
> > All comments are welcome!
> >
> > Igor
> >
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:39:57 -0400 (EDT)
> > To: PDML@pdml.net
> > Subject: PESO - PanESO - Grand Teton
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Well, I've done it, - a panoramic photo that I don't know how to present.
> > This is the largest ever (pixel-wise) pano, as it was the first time I
> > couldn't save it as JPEG because of the pixel size limit for JPEG.
> >
> > Somewhere online, I've found references that JPEG couldn't be larger than
> > some 65,xxx pixels in any direction. (It is probably less than 
> > 2^16-1=65536-1
> > = 65535, which is 2 bytes)
> > But that seems to be incorrect  (or maybe it is an additional limitation
> > imposed by the software?). I couldn't save as JPEG even the image that was
> > less than 32765 px.
> > I was able to save as Jpeg only when I took that number down to about 
> > 16,000.
> >
> >
> > Grand Teton.
> >
> > Warning: this is a 1MB file (600 px height):
> > https://42graphy.org/misc/2020-08-parks/pano_IR04802-14-2-600px-c.jpg
> >
> > And if someone is interested, here is 1000px-tall (2.3MB):
> > https://42graphy.org/misc/2020-08-parks/pano_IR04802-14-2-1000px-c.jpg
> >
> >
> > All comments are welcome!
> >
> > Igor
> >
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