Taking panoramas

[Nmatvrider]

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I am new to the SL2.  Have looked thru the on line manual and the camera menus.  I would like to know if there is a setting to take panoramas (for example:  moving the camera from left to right while holding the shutter) or do you take individual shots and stitch them together in a post processing program.

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[AZN]

34 minutes ago, Nmatvrider said:

or do you take individual shots and stitch them together in a post processing program

This.

I think you will find the SL2 is overkill for this kind of work.  The 24mp SL Typ601 is better suited and you will still end up with @ 60MP panoramas - more than big enough 😃

I used to do this thing professionally, but nowadays just do it for fun.  Some recent examples (Sony cameras but mostly Leica lenses):

http://www.theboomerlegacy.com/landscape/

[Nmatvrider]

31 minutes ago, AZN said:

This.

I think you will find the SL2 is overkill for this kind of work.  The 24mp SL Typ601 is better suited and you will still end up with @ 60MP panoramas - more than big enough 😃

I used to do this thing professionally, but nowadays just do it for fun.  Some recent examples (Sony cameras but mostly Leica lenses):

http://www.theboomerlegacy.com/landscape/

I don’t normally do panoramas.  Just want to know how in case the opportunity pops up.

[isleofgough]

Stitching them together in a post processing program will work well. This is easily done in Photoshop.

[Ken Abrahams]

Use a tripod and take a series of images overlapping at preconceived points in the scene. Move the camera along the tripods horizontal axis to each overlapping position and shoot.

Vertical pano's are better in my view because when you combine all the frames there is still croppable areas in the frame unlike horizontal pano's. There are more sophisticated rigs for shooting panoramas which correct for parallax but the software works well.   

 

PS set the tripod up to be level 

Edited November 9, 2020 by Ken Abrahams

[Joakim]

If you have decent light you can also take panoramas handheld as long as it is not too many images but 4-5 definitely works, just remember to stand steady and move the camera in a straight horizontal (or vertical) line with about 1/3 overlap between the images. And as Ken mention above, when shooting horizontal then hold the camera in a vertical (portrait) position and vice versa.

I prefer to set my camera to all manual when doing this so I get the same exposure for all images and make the post processing easier. So fixed aperture, shutter speed, ISO and also white balance but I tend to forget the last one. 

 

Edited November 9, 2020 by Joakim

[andybarton]

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These cameras do not have a "panorama" setting, like you would find on consumer cameras, so that advice above is sound. 1/3 overlap is very important.

[MarkP]

On 11/8/2020 at 6:02 AM, AZN said:

This.

I think you will find the SL2 is overkill for this kind of work.  The 24mp SL Typ601 is better suited and you will still end up with @ 60MP panoramas - more than big enough 😃

I used to do this thing professionally, but nowadays just do it for fun.  Some recent examples (Sony cameras but mostly Leica lenses):

http://www.theboomerlegacy.com/landscape/

So nice seeing local landscapes. Lovely photos 🙂

[scott kirkpatrick]

Panoramas indoors and 2d mosaics require finicky technique, tripods with  an extension so that the camera rotates around the input nodal point, but taking landscape shots wider than the scope of the lens isn't so tricky.  As mentioned already, handhold the camera level, keep the level line at a constant height in the image, and leave plenty of overlap.   I currently use an SL2 or an M10-R,  render each frame at 70% or so, and combine the jpegs in PTGui.  Some recommend that you use manual exposure  but I use small corrections as needed in processing to keep skies at smoothly changing brightness.  By today's standards, that is probably considered too fussy.

[Nmatvrider]

Thank you all very much.  You have answered my question.

[ardbeg]

You can (as I have a few times for fun) go over the top and use an adapted tilt-shift lens on the SL2 to get 3 or more perfectly aligned multi-shot 100+ megapixel frames and then stitch those together into a truly massive panorama. Very cool but eats hard drive space and processing power.