M8 w/15mm Voightlander - Quick and Dirty QTVR Pano

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This morning I slapped the 15mm Voightlander (4.5) lens that arrived yesterday up on my M8 and did a QTVR semi-spherical panorama shoot.

 

The advantage of the 15mm lens (19.5mm equiv on M8) is that I was able to get the pano in 18 shots instead of 30+.

 

The results were OK for a *very* quick-and-dirty test and the 15mm looks promising--even with its vignetting, 4.5 stop, and lack of fine detail when compared to one of the Leica Cron lenses.

 

I didn't spend much time adjusting the pano's nodal point, which accounts for some nasty ghosting in a few areas.

 

I also didn't do much in the way of color adjustment.

 

And I have a grease/dust blob or two. (Shame on me.)

 

In short, the pano work is pretty awful--but I wasn't trying. I was checking out the lens.

 

The point is that in a 30-minute test without much fuddling, this pano came out (in terms of resolution and detail) much, much better than the Digilux-2's panos. (Which is what I wanted to test.)

 

So, even with full-on operator suck and hurried, no-attention-to-detail work this pano still beats out the Digilux 2 when everything is "spot on." It can only get better.

 

Here it is:

http://www.a23.com/M8/M8_Voightlander15mm_QuickQTVRPanoTest.mov

 

I recommend that if you want to view it (16M) you right-click-save-as and download it--then launch it in QuickTime on your computer instead of viewing it in your Web browser.

 

And. . . . Are other QTVR pano people using the M8?

 

Later!

Will

 

P.S. You can zoom in and out with the SHIFT and OPTION keys.

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