----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: How do you guys do panoramas anyway?
In an ideal world, the camera will be on a perfectly leveled tripod, with the rotation point exactly under the rear nodal point of the lens. If your panoramic involves objects near to the camera, then you need to try to be fairly close to the ideal world situation. As Rob proved the other day, it is possible to shoot very nice panoramics hand held, while holding an active baby. I put a 2 exposure stitched image up the other day which was shot hand held with a 400mm lens, and it was fine also. With the examples you posted, I expect that careful hand holding will work. You want lots of overlap, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the exposures should be redundant, IIRC. The biggie is to shoot manual exposure and don't make any exposure adjust ents after the initial exposure. Density matching will be a bear if the exposures vary from frame to frame. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
