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Panormaic photography? |
What equipment do I need to take TRUE panoramic photographs? I don't mean the little point-and-shoot cameras that take long, narrow photos. Good answers here. Start with a wide angle lens on a digital SLR. Place it on a tripod and make sure it is level. Then take photos of the subject so the each image slightly overlaps the first. Once you load the images on the computer, you can use any number of photo programs to stitch them together into one image. I use a 12mm lens on my digital SLR and have had some outstanding results. The "Best Answer" is not quite what I was looking for. Thank you wackywallwalker - your answer was more what I was hoping to get. Thanks for the input! I needed a realistic perspective before getting into panoramic photography more seriously. your best bet is to get Adobe Photoshop and learn to stitch your images together - type photoshop tutorials into your search and you should find all you need I believe what you're thinking of would be pretty expensive if you aren't into that as a business! Unless I'm wrong, you're thinking of a very specialized camera, mounted and set to rotate -up to 360 degrees. It moves at a fixed speed, with the shutter open, and the film inside moves (in the opposite direction) at the same speed. Depending on available light, the camera turns faster or slower, so that the actual exposure time is the same as if the shutter or iris had "clicked." I frankly doubt that anybody still makes these, but I'd advise to check out some of the big camera stores. You certainly won't find one at Wal-Mart or Best Buy! You might even get lucky on eBay. What you want to do is stitch your photos together. This will depend on how picky you are with the output. You need some very good equipment (tripod with head for panoramas) to go upscale and a steady hand for lesser quality and price. What you do is start taking pictures at one far side of what you want to include, and keep shooting, including 50% of the last shot into your next shot, until you have reached the other side of what you want to include. Once you do that you need software to stitch them all together. Again, there is high-end and low-end...Photoshop is high end, autostitch is low end. Here is a link to autostitch: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/... I hope this helps some. Go to your local camera store and buy a panoramic lense for your camera...can be pricey... |
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