City Park Pavillion by Ray Harrison, on Flickr
Yep the old 4x5 really forced you to think it through. Wish I had taken a few double shots at both extremes of lens shift, but of course stitching images together in those days was a lot of post image work and never very clean.I've been learning my way around a new-to-me tech camera. This is hardly awesome by any standard and just barely a stitched image (2 image "pano"). It was fun to make though. You move the image sensor without moving the lens and you can tilt the lens as well for focus plane control. They're interesting photographic instruments because they slow you waaaay down. It's very much an all manual process. They're reasonably heavy and the older glass is amazing (and heavy). Because live view is really not that usable on the imaging sensor I'm using, the only real way to focus is with a laser distance measure. I could get a ground glass insert where you remove the sensor, do the upside down focus thing, and then replace the sensor but haven't gone that direction just yet. And a light meter for exposure. And cocking the shutter. "Just like them olden days" 🙂. It's very much a "frames per hour" rate - not per second.
This is a 40mm lens with 10mm sensor fall and the second image with 15mm shift. 15mm was well past the image circle of this lens in the corners, especially with the 10mm fall so cropped to accommodate. Stitched in PT GUI.
All of my content was stitched together with Windows Live Essentials photo gallery. It did a surprisingly good job for free, but, MS being MS, it's no longer even available. Then they gave up the quality free apps they had going for touch-centric apps that aren't worth a crap.
I had a Surface tablet for a while, but I gave up on touchscreen Windows a long time ago once it became clear that no developer (MS included) was taking it seriously. Even MS's own apps never really got that much attention. The iPad is the only quality tablet experience, IMO.
Boy the meanings of words sure are getting scrambled these days. I could swear that was a vertical pan.🙂
Lovely. I've visited the UK many times (30+) but somehow always managed to ignore the lake district. When is a good time to visit it? I'm scared by stories of crowded parking areas, full hiking paths etc.
The beautiful Lake District, one of my go to places for a weekend hiking break.
Thank you. I must plan a visit. We somehow almost managed to pass it and the stories didn't help to force a detour. Which is silly since we visited other busy spots like Wales, Yorkshire Dales and popular parts of the highlands.
Thank you. I must plan a visit. We somehow almost managed to pass it and the stories didn't help to force a detour. Which is silly since we visited other busy spots like Wales, Yorkshire Dales and popular parts of the highlands.
Since this is a photo thread, a pano of the scotland:
It's more south I think, we were on our way to the Oban ferry and did some hiking west of Tyndrum.
Being the amateur, that's a new term for me. Next time I'll post it sideways and ask folks to lay down to view it! 😀
For a free app (or software - not app) look at Hugin. It is a bit quirky/basic but it will stitch some that others refuse. It is 'open-source' and used as the underlying engine in some premium software.
Superb image quality, but they were a bear to print. Required an 8x10 enlarger as I recall.
