If the URL did not work, try this one: http://tiny.cc/wlZ6i Carlos 2009/11/17 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 >> > --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list