You've apparently forgotten what the trailing 'p' in the PZ-1p stands for.
On 4/14/2015 12:01 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
It's a nice gallery with many wonderful images but, at the risk of being pedantic, I must say that I feel that a large percentage of them are not panoramas (if we are using the term in the traditional photographic sense and not simply as a synomym of "a vista". A true panorama results in a wide aspect ratio, but a wide aspect ratio does not necessarily make a panorama. A panorama is created in one of two ways: 1) by stitching together two or more exposures (ideally made by pivoting around the lenses nodal point) that results a a Field of View wider than would have been possible with a wide lens on the normal film/sensor format. 2) by the use of a lens with the Field of View (and image circle) of a larger format, used on a smaller format film/sensor. (As in a 5x7 film capable 90mm lens being used in conjunction with a 120 film format in the Fuji G617/GX617. Another example might be a strip of 35mm film exposed in 6x7 camera with a 6x7 lens. Shooting in true panorama fashion can be a real challenge, both in the taking and the making of the image. Not so with merely cropping a traditional image into a panorama-imitating aspect ratio. Perhaps I was reading too much into the theme of "Panorama" and thus my expectations are out of line. If so, I apologize. But I have a real appreciation for real panoramas, and I was let down by a significant percentage of the images in this gallery. That being said, I made no submission myself, feeling that I had not made a true panorama in quite a while. All of that being said, my favorite images were Ken Waller's "Denali Falls" (the only vertical image of the entire gallery and an image that reminds me of one I took while hiking as a lad in Washington's Olympia National Rainforest) and David Mann's "Wet Feet", which is near perfection (and by "near" I mean "I wonder if the use of a polarizing filter might have made it just a wee bit closer to perfection"). Lovely images, everyone!
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