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On 03/01/07, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Rob Id ownloaded the article and will read it. > I never had anything near in the foreground in the few panos I did, that > must be the point. Very true, however if you do it's always good to have some knowledge and potential solution

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On Jan 3, 2007, at 12:25 PM, William Robb wrote: > A couple of years ago, I was asked to do a multi exposure stitch of > a map > that had been emailed from somewhere in eastern Europe. > It was a nightmare. I don't recall exactly how many exposures the > photographer had done, close to two dozen

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, 2007 11:21 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head On 03/01/07, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I was just lucky so far that I did not use anything wider than a 50mm? > I will make the next panos again with the Pentax 50mm or 100mm.

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-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head > Just take two shots with a wide angle lens in a confined space by > rotating on the spot and attempt to stitch them What kind of camera to subject distance are we talking about here? Kenneth Waller - Original Message

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- Original Message - From: "Digital Image Studio" Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head > 2 to 3m distance will cause all sorts of problems. I often make panos > in close quarters where some foreground elements maybe only 10-15cm > away from the centre of the panoram

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, January 02, 2007 4:58 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: Do it yourself pano head So I was just lucky so far that I did not use anything wider than a 50mm? I will make the next panos again with the Pentax 50mm or 100mm. greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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On 03/01/07, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I was just lucky so far that I did not use anything wider than a 50mm? > I will make the next panos again with the Pentax 50mm or 100mm. > greetings > Markus Not really, you could be lucky and the natural point of rotation of your lens/cam

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:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head On 02/01/07, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dave > since I only will make flat panoramas made out of 3-6 shots and not 360 > degree round ones I would love to see the difference in a pa

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On 03/01/07, Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just take two shots with a wide angle lens in a confined space by > > rotating on the spot and attempt to stitch them > > What kind of camera to subject distance are we talking about here? 2 to 3m distance will cause all sorts of problems.

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ound 50mm, none with DA lenses. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head > On 02/01/07, Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've had pretty much the same e

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D]> Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head > On 02/01/07, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Dave >> since I only will make flat panoramas made out of 3-6 shots and not 360 >> degree round ones I would love to see the difference in a panorama with >>

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On 02/01/07, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dave > since I only will make flat panoramas made out of 3-6 shots and not 360 > degree round ones I would love to see the difference in a panorama with and > without nodal point adjustment of the camera for my requirements . Has > anybody

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On 02/01/07, Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had pretty much the same experience - I've shot panos both on a leveled > tripod & handheld & have experienced no problems getting panoramaker to > stitch them together. Use a WA lens in portrait mode and combine near and far field obje

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Most of my pano's are in the 3 -6 shot range also, here's a 4 shot example: Pano head used And an 18 frame 360 degree one made by just rotating the tripods head (before I had the pano head): T

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I've had pretty much the same experience - I've shot panos both on a leveled tripod & handheld & have experienced no problems getting panoramaker to stitch them together. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: "Walter Hamler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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David Savage wrote: >LOL > >Grow up Ann :-) > >Dave > NEVER! ann > >On 1/2/07, ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Dave - really - you need to keep it clean here... >> >>ann >> >>David Savage wrote: >> >> >> >>>Here's a prototype I made based on my horizontal pano head: >>>

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for your self made head from somebody with "two left hands" :-) Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:11 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head Nice.

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LOL Grow up Ann :-) Dave On 1/2/07, ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave - really - you need to keep it clean here... > > ann > > David Savage wrote: > > >Here's a prototype I made based on my horizontal pano head: -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailm

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And your right often hand held is fine. Where hand held falls down in my experience is when there are close in foreground objects. Parallax error becomes a serious PITA in the these situations. Meaning extra time in front of the computer manually selection control points (I use PTGui for stitching

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Dave - really - you need to keep it clean here... ann David Savage wrote: >Here's a prototype I made based on my horizontal pano head: > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

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amera correctly on the head? > jco > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Savage > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 9:23 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head > > > It

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"Curious, How do you accurately determine the nodal point on the lens, especially the zooms, in order to position the camera correctly on the head? jco" Actually, I have shot quite a bit of stuff to stitch together and have done them all handheld. Surprisingly I have never had a problem getting t

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: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Do it yourself pano head It sure ain't pretty (the vertical arm that is). Made from scrap in about half an hour. The 'L' bracket has since been black anodised and works great with the horizontal pano head. Cheers, Dave BTW, If anyone is inte

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It sure ain't pretty (the vertical arm that is). Made from scrap in about half an hour. The 'L' bracket has since been black anodised and works great with the horizontal pano head. Cheers, Dave BTW, If anyone is interested in an 'L' bracket for their K10D let me know. On 1/2/07, Paul Stenquist

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Nice. Not pretty, but nice. I may copy your design. Paul On Jan 1, 2007, at 8:44 PM, David Savage wrote: > Here's a prototype I made based on my horizontal pano head: > > > > And here's some info about the pano head & "L" bracket I made: >

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Here's a prototype I made based on my horizontal pano head: And here's some info about the pano head & "L" bracket I made: Today or tomorrow I'm going to gather the material

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Here's an interesting article on building your own pano head. Seem like a reasonable thing to do if you're just experimenting. See you later, gs -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mail