Carlos, your ears must have been burning!
I am writing a Pano article for the magazine about my latest trials and I refer
to your article in Issue 3.
That is a good photo, well put together from colour negatives. I sympathise
fully with your frustrations when rying to match colour, saturation, contrast
and exposure across a number of negatives.
John
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Subject: [rollei_list] 2,8F and Rollei Pano Head
I did not take a pano shot with the Rollei TLR and the Rollei Panorama Head
from a long time. I took the last three or four panos with the TLR using the
_tripod_ pano head, it allows a larger overlapping area for the frames allowing
an easy working for the automatic stitching pano software (i.e. PS Photomerge).
The RPH was thought and designed for the analog world BTW. PS Photomerge
couldn't stitch the frames I took with the Rollei Panorama head, the frames
overlapping is not enough. I returned to my "manual" method creating a new
document and working the frames as layers to stitch them finally. I had no
problem with the three frames perspective matching, despite the subject was
closer than infinity (not the ideal subject distance for this kind of panos)
and I needed to use f22 and 1 sec to get sharpness ( the lens was focused at
infinity to keep the right rotation axis for the RPH, camera and Rolleifix
combo).
The real headache was to match color, contrast and bright for the frames, as
always; it was the main reason I started to use pano software to stitch
digitallized images; it requires an overlapping area size the RPH does not
provide.
The "Color Match" tool from PS helps with the task, but it does not make magic,
you also need to use other tools.
Last week I used the 3,5F por B&W shots and the 2,8F for color shots (Kodak
Portra 400):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/31593480544/in/dateposted-public/
[X]Creek in the
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Three 6x6 frames 'manually' stitched using an images edition software, a pano
software use was not possible; they were taken with the Rollei Panorama Head
and the frames overlapping area is not enough to stitch them automatically.
Rolleiflex 2,8F Zeiss Planar, Rollei Panorama Head, Kodak Portra 400 120 Color
negative film.
[https://farm1.staticflickr.com/291/31593480544_7eaa51942a_b.jpg] ;
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/31593480544/>
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Carlos
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