It's very easy to do handheld panorama shots if you are doing landscapes where there isn't something close to you that will shift with parallax.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> > >> It seems to me that the least expensive way to get wide angles and high >> image quality is to stitch multiple exposures together in a panorama. >> >> Put the 50mm prime on your camera, mount it on the tripod in vertical >> orientation and when you take a bunch of photos and stitch them together, >> you even get higher resolution than you would with a wide angle lens. If >> you want to go all out, you calculate the nodal point, bend some steel into >> a 90 degree bracket, drill a hole at the nodal point, buy a 1/4-20 nut and >> you are golden. >> >> Mount it on the K100, and you get landscapes with the colors of the K100 >> sensor, the field of view of a wide angle, and better resolution than the >> K-5. > > Frankly, if that was my strategy for getting ultrawide shots, I think > I'd miss more than I got. > > - In some cases, because the circumstances (weather, light) change > before I can get everything set up and execute the panorama > - In other cases, because I'm disinclined or prohibited from carrying > a tripod where I'm going > - In other cases, because I'm not sufficiently "sold" on a shot (in > advance) to go through the effort > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
