----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Harris" Subject: Re: Gigabyte Panoramas
> Any comment from those with panoramic experience? > I've done a few panos, I think Rob and Mark are the stitched pano expert here. My solution is pretty basic, and works well up to a couple of dozen exposures. I choose a focal length that will require about a dozen or more exposures to take in everything I want in the frame, and then I shoot a few test exposures of the scene to check histograms, then I start at one corner and start shooting (camera in manual), making sure I overlap the frames by 25-35%. I haven't checked to see how many exposures I can force into a multi frame pano this way, I would expect if I really wanted to I could shot several dozen frames and combine them. I'm fairly new to this stuff, as I didn't have good post processing tools for it until recently. I discovered that Photoshop CS3 does a very good job with the photomerge tool, much better than prior versions. I believe Photoshop will allow up to 200,000 pixels on a side. The processing times to build these things is huge if you don't have a fast machine with lots of RAM. Something Rob and I were discussing the other day was lens setting. He finds that setting the lens aperture with the ring on the lens gives more consistent exposures, so your best lens for the job might be one with an aperture ring. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
