[rollei_list] Re: Rolleikin...Old stitched pano
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:59:18 -0300
This is a 1864 sample about a stitched pano, the prints match very
well, however the subject is like the Rollei TLR manuals advise (click
on the image for a larger view):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Panoramic_from_Lookout_Mountain_Tenn.,_1864.jpg
Carlos
2009/11/17 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2009/11/17, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> ----- > The Rollei panoramic adaptor does a fairly good job but the
>> individual
>> images must be stitched using an image editing program since the images must
>> be corrected for the mis-matches which inevitably occur at the edges and
>> corners due to the nature of "normal" lenses. In fact, I have doubts that
>> the panoramic pictures which appear in the old Rollei literature were
>> actually made with a Rollei, they look like they were takan with a rotating
>> camera like the Cirkut camera. It is possible to correct these images
>> optically but its not simple.
>
> Each time I read it Richard, each time I disagree with you in part,
> you are pretty right in theory, but things can be different in
> practice.
> 1) The mis-matches are not inevitable, they mainly depend about the
> subject geometrical form and the main subject distance from the camera
> (beside the right rotation axis of course), closer the main subject,
> the posibilities about mis-matches are bigger and farther the subject,
> the mis-matches possibilities are smaller, this is the reason the
> Rolleiflex manuals say it's better to use the RPH for open landscapes
> with a wide horizont line, it diminishes the mis-match risk
> substantially.
>
> 2) The way you distribute the frames separation during the frames
> taking according the subject features can help very much to avoid
> mis-matches; f.e. if you have a road in the foreground and the
> separation for two frames is in a curve, you will get a mis-match that
> you could only solve via software, but if you change the camera
> position slightly allowing that the curve is 100% within one frame,
> you don't get the mis-match.
>
> 3) There were great stitched panos before the PC era taken with
> different normal cameras via a PH adapter. The Rollei Pano Head was
> one of the most popular accesories with the Rolleikin, if it could not
> take good panos it wouldn't be so popular.
>
> Carlos
>
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