you need to try some panorama software to see if they will make life easier enough for you to use them.
http://www.panoguide.com/
Thanks Herb - looks like some interesting info there. I just lined things up in the finder after carefully getting the camera level - using a Pz-1p and FA20-35 f4 zoom. It worked OK but there was much more overlapping the frames than I wanted - probably because the coverage of the Pz-1p's finder. An Mz-S or LX would have been much better in that regard.
i use PhotoVista, now published by www.iSeeMedia.com. i don't have problems printing panoramas up to about 12000 pixels wide by about 3000 high from Photoshop on my system. i have used the 13 inch panorama paper cut to about 40 inches long, just a bit short of the 44 inch maximum that the Epson 1280 printer driver supports.
I was expecting to run into that 44 inch maximum but did not. Under custom paper sizes the 2000p's driver will let me put in a sheet that is 12.9 inches wide by 12 feet long! I don't know if that would work - what I printed out was 3000 x 13928 pixels - just over 46 inches at 300 dpi. I could set up the drive just fine in Photoshop, but when I went to print the print process would crash with an error message. That seemed to kill the print routines - clikcing on print after that did nothing at all until I shut down PS and reloaded it. Corel managed to print it fine, with one exception in that it would not print flush to the top margin. I had to trim off a 1/16th of an inch or so (a bit of a pain since it had to be done manually - I certainly don't have a roto-trimmer big enough for this thing!)
No I have to try to mount the dang thing onto foam core...
some of my panoramas are at http://users.bestweb.net/~hchong/Panoramas/Panoramas.htm. i have converted most of them to QTVRs on the site, so you won't get as high resolution as the originals. i use a Kaidan panoramic head for many of my panorama shots, although i am changing over to a simpler setup to save some bulk and weight.
Great stuff!
- MCC ----- Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI -----
Photography:
http://www.markcassino.com
