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Post by nikonbob on Sept 4, 2011 12:09:03 GMT -5
I have just been playing with Microsoft ICE which is a free panoramic maker download. It seems to be very good and it even imports Nikon RAW files, surprise, surprise. Anyway, if you shoot film or digital this could be an interesting program to use.
Bob
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Post by daveh on Sept 4, 2011 14:38:41 GMT -5
Bob, a free download is good. I've played around with a few different panorama makers, but now use Photoshop.
Dave.
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Post by Randy on Sept 4, 2011 15:12:34 GMT -5
I have one of those Minolta Maxxum SLRs with the Panorama Mode, but I guess it takes special developing.
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Post by daveh on Sept 4, 2011 16:01:25 GMT -5
The APS cameras had a panoramic mode. Really, on them not even a super wide - it just cut off top and bottom to re-size the printed area.
The big difference with a panorama in camera and that done by stitching in the software is that the latter can cover 360o[/sup.] - at least I done know of any cameras that do a panorama of that 'size'.
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Post by nikonbob on Sept 4, 2011 19:20:57 GMT -5
Some digital cameras allow you to do panoramas in camera by simply panning the camera. Many different ways to come to the same/similar end. They all have the potential to be very useful.
Bob
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Post by daveh on Sept 4, 2011 19:41:38 GMT -5
What I understand the panorama mode on many cameras does is allow you to align each next frame with the previous frame, so it is more easily stitched later in the software. Not having a camera that has any sort of panorama mode (other than that on the APS camera) I can only read about how it works. I presume at some time in the future the software will be in-camera , but I didn't think it was here yet, at least not to do a full 360 - is it? The Canon 7D does have an inbuilt spirit level. However the results I have got be eye have tended to be just as good and considerably faster to do. Here's one I did earlier:  |
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Post by nikonbob on Sept 4, 2011 21:48:18 GMT -5
Dave You no longer have to wait to stitch it together in software. There are several cameras that do this in camera and the Fuji X100 is one of them www.fujifilm.ca/products/digital_cameras/x/finepix_x100/features/page_10.html . With my old C5050 Oly from 8 years ago you had to stitch it in software. The future is here now and I think it may be connected to the cameras also having a movie capability. That is just a guess though. Bob |
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Post by daveh on Sept 5, 2011 1:34:19 GMT -5
Bob,
I'm half or two-thirds right, The Fuji will do 180 or 120 degrees.
Being a pedant, I would also add that the Fuji is incorrect in saying that "even enlarged to an A3 sized print there is virtually no loss of resolution" for at least two reasons. One is that the ratio of the dimensions is not A3, so the result will not enlarge to A3 (without considerable distortion). Secondly as it says "with virtually no loss of resolution": resolution is a function of the lens, not the size to which it is enlarged. If the lens will resolve 400 lines it will do that whatever size print is made. I suspect what they mean to say is "enlarging to the width of A3 is possible as the lens has sufficient resolving power even in panoramic mode". ;D
Dave.
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Post by nikonbob on Sept 5, 2011 7:32:20 GMT -5
Dave
As with most things written in the English language by non native English speakers there is a need to interpret what is really meant. You should read my KIA owners manual.
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Post by daveh on Sept 5, 2011 8:07:36 GMT -5
Bob, there is a job out there for someone who can write plain English. Umpteen years ago my brother made a comment that the Japanese were very clever to turn out the technological wonders they did, but too stupid to employ someone to write the manual in English that could be understood. I presume the same applied to French, Spanish, German and other language version.
We have just bought a Suzuki Swift and it would appear the man who wrote your Kia manual was in charge of its manual too.
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 5, 2011 8:20:25 GMT -5
I have made (assembled?) a couple of panoramas on Photoshop. I was very pleased with the results.
I did discover though that a wide angle lens is not the way to go. Due to its curvature too much must be cropped at the top and bottom.
Mickey
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Post by daveh on Sept 5, 2011 9:13:53 GMT -5
I did have some paper roll for printing out panoramas. Some printers seem to do it with more ease than others, but none I've used qualify as exactly being straightforward.
The problem too with a wide angle lens (or zoom set to wide) is that there tends to be more distortion (usually barrel distortion) and the frames don't fit together so well.
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