sm23221 Posted August 14, 2007 Share #1 Posted August 14, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Why buy a wide angle lens when you can very easily stitch together 2 50mm photos? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 Hi sm23221, Take a look here Wide angle lens?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
carstenw Posted August 14, 2007 Share #2 Posted August 14, 2007 Good point, off you go. Oh, try to avoid people, they move Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cme4brain Posted August 14, 2007 Share #3 Posted August 14, 2007 Why buy a wide angle lens when you can very easily stitch together 2 50mm photos? In concept with a landscape, that would work. Rangefinders are made for wide angles, and if I had to have just one lens to shoot my M8 with, it would be a wide angle (21mm or 24mm). You may not be able to take two overlapped pictures in quick succession with a locked exposure; there may be no substitute for a wide angle. Stitched phots at best look stitched. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted August 14, 2007 Share #4 Posted August 14, 2007 Stitched phots at best look stitched. While I'd never use stitched shots as the norm, I don't think what you say is necessarily true. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth_c Posted August 14, 2007 Share #5 Posted August 14, 2007 I have seen plenty of stitched shots that you could never identify as stitched. Back to the OP though...might as well get one lens, stitch fro WA and crop for tele Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm23221 Posted August 14, 2007 Author Share #6 Posted August 14, 2007 Sorry, Carsten, I did mean for static landscapes only. Stitched photos do not look stitched at all and even with scrutiny one can't tell they are stitched. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. borger Posted August 14, 2007 Share #7 Posted August 14, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Rangefinders are made for wide angles.......... Since when ......... the normal lens ruled on Rangefinders for ages!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwelland Posted August 14, 2007 Share #8 Posted August 14, 2007 IF you've got the time and a static enough subject then obviously you can stitch together many images taken even at longer focal lengths to produce the equivalent of a wide angle view but with enormous resolution. There's nothing new about this. However, for the other 99.999% of wide angle shots you might prefer a WA lens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM-25 Posted August 14, 2007 Share #9 Posted August 14, 2007 Why buy a wide angle lens when you can very easily stitch together 2 50mm photos? Because I like photography, not computer-ography. There are fleeting moments in landscapes too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted August 14, 2007 Share #10 Posted August 14, 2007 I think that for landscapes stitching may even be preferred. Normal lenses have less distortion than wide angles, and the increase in resolution means larger prints are possible. The question is what to stitch with. The only program I have had consistently good results with, often with almost no effort, is Autopano Pro. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garygsandhu Posted August 15, 2007 Share #11 Posted August 15, 2007 Why stitch two 50mm photos when you can crop a 35mm? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted August 15, 2007 Share #12 Posted August 15, 2007 Resolution. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcoombs Posted August 15, 2007 Share #13 Posted August 15, 2007 Why buy a wide angle lens when you can very easily stitch together 2 50mm photos? Changes the perspective, no? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted August 15, 2007 Share #14 Posted August 15, 2007 Changes the perspective, no? Perspective depends on distance, not on focal length. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoskeptic Posted August 15, 2007 Share #15 Posted August 15, 2007 Carsten, FYI, the pano stitching feature in CS3 has been a revelation compared to that used in CS2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted August 15, 2007 Share #16 Posted August 15, 2007 Carsten, FYI, the pano stitching feature in CS3 has been a revelation... John - If you check out the excellent '36 shot panorama' thread Carsten began I think you'll find he is well aware of CS3 improvements, and in terms of the question posed by the original poster to this thread is full of very useful information. With regard to that question, I currently am only shooting landscapes with my M8, have one lens [24], and I'm putting panorama files aside for later stitching [thanks to Carsten's posts, I may well get Autopano Pro for the stitching]. ...................Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morten Grathe Posted August 15, 2007 Share #17 Posted August 15, 2007 I also find CS3 very easy and straitforward. In my opinion you need both wideangles and CS3. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm23221 Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share #18 Posted August 15, 2007 I use Autopano Pro with excellent results. I find it is much better to use a longer (50mm) lenses for landscape panoramics rather than wide angle lenses; it virtually eliminates wide angle distortion and lines end up very straight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoskeptic Posted August 15, 2007 Share #19 Posted August 15, 2007 Agreed, Michael. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
losta Posted August 16, 2007 Share #20 Posted August 16, 2007 Different perspective, different feel, different philosophy, different zen. It's not the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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