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Ben F 		 

Panoramic pictures


Just curious, may seem like a stupid question, but I was just walking through our local markets ,and there was a small little shop with reaalllyyy nice framed panoramic landscape pictures, and I was just curious as to how you take panoramic pictures.??
Are there lenses that take them, or do u simply use normal lenses and ask in the printing for panoramic pictures or something??
im guessing there might be a few ways to go about it, just after some ideas. I love taking landscape shots and it really does look good in panoramic!

thanks in advance.


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August 08, 2004

 

Steven Chaitoff 		  Yes Ben you just ask your printer to make pans. They will typically chop off equal portions of the top & bottom of the print to make a typical pan ratio. I'm not postive about photography conventions, but in video, u'll typically use a ratio of 6:11 (widescreen short pan) or the more common 1:2.35 (long panorama height vs. length.) This means you have to take a normal shot & visualize the final result, keeping in mind that the top & bottom won't be there. Again with video, some people put electrical tape on the lens to physically block out portions that won't be in the final picture (this is pretty common in low budget films) but don't do it with your own camera.

Anyway, any way you do it, you will have to sacrifice image quality because you're cutting down on the picture. I don't know of any lens or something that can take advantage of optics to create a panorama, but it mat exist.


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August 08, 2004

 

Vince Broesch 		  There are also special panorama cameras. They use a "swing lens" the lens pans (rotates) as the image is being projected onto the film. It's a wierd thing. But that is really the right way to take a panorama. Most labs are not set up to print the resulting long 35mm neg, it's about 3 times longer than the normal neg. If you want to know more search for "horizon 202" on the internet.

Vince
www.PhotoAgo.com


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August 08, 2004

 

Samuel Smith 		  some cameras offer a panorama mode .
they block out the frame for you ?
but if you know anything about computers , you can stitch pictures together,photoshop?
sambo


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August 11, 2004

 

Kevin M. Berning 		 
 
 
If you have a digital camera you should try taking a few pictures. and use autostitch program which you can download for free. It does all of the blending for you, all you have to do is give it the pictures and it does all the work of putting them together for you. you can find it at this website.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

here is a picture that I made using autostitch.


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June 21, 2006

 

Kevin M. Berning 		 
 
  Panoramic of horses in the rain
Panoramic of horses in the rain
This took about 5 of or 6 pictures.

Kevin M. Berning

  
 
If you have a digital camera you should try taking a few pictures. and use autostitch program which you can download for free. It does all of the blending for you, all you have to do is give it the pictures and it does all the work of putting them together for you. you can find it at this website.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

here is a picture that I made using autostitch.


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