Bo_Lorentzen Posted February 11, 2007 Share #1  Posted February 11, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Following one of my obsessions in life I finally got around to shooting a panorama with my Digilux 3 and the Oly 8mm. its a bit of a rush job, but still came out. every year I visit Dallas and pass the beautiful bronze sculpture by the convention center with the heard of cattle crossing the water. Well this year, I hopped in a cap with my fisheye and visited the place on a rather overcast morning before my flight to Los Angeles.  It is the first image on top of the page.Bo Lorentzen - Panorama Playbox  as the 8mm create 130 degrees FOV from side to side of the image, I rotated the camera so the diagonal line from corner to corner was vertical, resulting in 180 degrees coverage vertically, I placed a string around the front of the front of the lens and "hoovered" it over a point on the ground to fix the camera in the same nodal point position for each exposure, finally I captured 6 exposures by rotating my self a bit clockwise and recentereing the string before relasing the shutter. I missed a bit of the ground and photoshopped the hole using flaming-pear flexify plugin to remap the ground for touchup. the image was stitched using PT-gui.  Enjoy.  Bo  My Leica scratch page - random thoughts , pictures and such. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jonoslack Posted February 11, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted February 11, 2007 Hi Bo I hope you're well This is splendid - Douglas Adams would be proud of you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Maio Posted February 11, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted February 11, 2007 Very interesting, Bo! Â I presume this is the 8mm f/3.5 Zuiko fisheye? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo_Lorentzen Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share #4  Posted February 11, 2007 Yes it is, shot at f.16 for dof.. having done this with a lot of fisheye lenses I can add that it have a interestingly low level of chromatic abrasion (compared to many others naturally there is no such thing as a fisheye without a bit of color wandering.) unlike most which have a solid red line at the edges on these images I particularly noticed mostly a blue thin rather un-spectacular blue line.. this might be because of the topic, but I was very pleased.  Bo  My Leica scratch page - random thoughts , pictures and such. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wstotler Posted February 12, 2007 Share #5  Posted February 12, 2007 Nice panos.  Good to see another pano shooter here.  I posted a thread over here about the M8 and a quick and dirty test I did with a 15mm Voightlander lens:  http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/15985-m8-w-15mm-voightlander-quick-dirty.html  Now, if I can just get my rig out of the house and into the wild!  Thanks, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
egibaud Posted February 12, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted February 12, 2007 great.... next time don't leave the lense case on the floor ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo_Lorentzen Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share #7  Posted February 13, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Woops, got cought with the lens case on the ground. Actually I left it instead of hitting it with the clone tool in photoshop, thinking "maybe comebody does catch it". and so it is.  Interestingly, just like Will reported, I feel very much that while the Digilux 3 is positively not a M8, it delivered some of the most "stitch-able" images I have worked with in a long time, and that inspite of my experimenting with rotating and everything else.. I will really enjoy using this camera for commercial panorama jobs.   Bo  My Leica scratch page - random thoughts , pictures and such. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dist Posted February 13, 2007 Share #8  Posted February 13, 2007 Interestingly, just like Will reported, I feel very much that while the Digilux 3 is positively not a M8, it delivered some of the most "stitch-able" images I have worked with in a long time..  Full ack. The other day I did a quick'n'dirty 180° pano over Lake Zurich, no tripod, just resting the D3 on a wall, kit lens in wide position, rotating manually about what I thought could be close to the nodal point Threw the result onto Calico (automatic stitching s/w for Mac) and lo and behold, a beautiful panorama came out. I had it printed 90cm (35") wide and it's stunning, with no whatsoever ghosting apparent to the naked eye. Cheers, Dieter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dist Posted February 13, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted February 13, 2007 I posted a thread over here about the M8 and a quick and dirty test I did with a 15mm Voightlander lens:Â http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/15985-m8-w-15mm-voightlander-quick-dirty.html Now, if I can just get my rig out of the house and into the wild! Â I like the Kamasutra book on your shelf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wstotler Posted February 13, 2007 Share #10  Posted February 13, 2007 I like the Kamasutra book on your shelf  So, I guess I should reconsider the amount of detail I think the 15mm pulls in? It isn't like that isn't filed in the right place, BTW, next to the biographies of Darek Jarman and Lenny Bruce. You should see what my wife keeps on the other bookshelves in the house. . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dist Posted February 14, 2007 Share #11 Â Posted February 14, 2007 You should see what my wife keeps on the other bookshelves in the house. . . . Â No wonder you don't get around to hauling your rig out of the house OK, I guess no more sleazy innuendos from here on out, back to business Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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