Well, Mark, from you who does a lot of stitched panos that seem to be
the the definitive statement.
BUT a 14mm costs a lot of money. I shot my living room with my DP&S at
35mm (equiv) and stitched 3 horizontal images together. They covered
almost 180 degrees (I actually cropped the ends of the image), took
about 30 minutes to shoot and stitch including figuring out how to use
the stitching software (it is surprisingly easy). Saved $$$$$ <grin>. So
I would say that a 35mm (equiv) lens would work fine if verticals images
were shot and stitched in normal sized rooms, and a 24mm (equiv) for
small rooms. If Scott has Photoshop CS2 stitching software is built in,
and there are several rather inexpensive programs that can do it (my Oly
came with stitching software included).
Also real estate photography does not pay a lot, most of it being done
with a digital point and shoot nowadays. And the high-end stuff, where
there is actually some money to be made, is still shot with a view
camera to the best of my knowledge. I doubt that Scott could make enough
to pay for that 14mm lens and a DSLR.
--graywolf
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Mark Roberts wrote:
Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I may have a line on a job taking photographs for a company that does
interior and exterior work for real estate companies. While I don't
know the details of said work just yet, I do know that they provide
those interior panoramas that are quite popular with online real
estate listings. If the job pans out I'm considering purchasing an
*istD or DS. Was wondering if any of you might have an opinion on
which lenses might be most useful in that situation? My first
thoughts were to get the widest lens I could find, but after looking
at some of the wonderful landscape panoramas stitched together by Mark
I'm not sure that a super wide angle lens would be absolutely
necessary.
Any thoughts?
If (and only if) you need to make large prints then stitching is the way
to go: With care taken in taking the original shots and the use of
dedicated stitching software like PanoramaMaker, it's much faster and
easier than most people think.
If it's for online use only, (and it sounds from your description as if
that's the case) you won't need the high resolution of multi-image
stitching - just go with a top-quality rectilinear wide angle.
In short: Get yourself an ist-D or DS2 and the recent Pentax 14mm prime.
:)
