Went for a site visit few days back and I was having problem to take a photo that really speaks a thousand words because I; 1) don’t have wide angle conversion lens to take a photo that covers the whole area, and 2) need a large enough photo that doesn’t miss out details.
The solution for my problems would probably be to get a wide angle conversion lens and mount it to a camera with 20+ megapixels. That surely is not an option for me, since I was using my personal camera for that purpose, and my current company doesn’t pay me RM20K per month that would make buying gadgets my freetime activity.
An alternative to that is to take a photo sequence, and combine it to become one. It might not be as straightforward as what one might think, and this CambridgeInColour Tutorial might help to get started.
Instead of using Gimp and go through with the calculations and manual editing, I use 2 useful programs, autopano-sift, and hugin. In Gentoo (again), I just need to emerge these 2 programs;
#emerge media-gfx/autopano-sift media-gfx/hugin
I don’t need to go through the details of how to use the software since 1) Everybody that reads my blog sure know how to read a manual, 2) Google can lead everyone here to it’s official website, which of course contains the manual, 3) I’m just lazy. Anyway, here’s my work in sequence;
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// Stitched
//Cropped
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5 Comments on this post
Leave a CommentReminds me of the old days when you needed to mount your SLR on the nodal point, use a 50mm lens and fix the autofocus/autoexposure. The stitching part was the least of your problems at that time….
Comment left on 7.18.2006 by farulg
Perhaps I’m just not old enough to experience that
I don’t own any (D)SLR camera nor conversion lenses, and what can I do with my camera is quite limited.
Comment left on 7.19.2006 by shakir
Panorama has been an interest of mine from back then. Of course in the old days, SLR pricing was a lot cheaper than the DSLRs today. They get you when you process the film!
Comment left on 7.20.2006 by farulg
I’m new with this photography stuff, and equipments might not be the only reason that I cant snap great photos
Comment left on 7.20.2006 by shakir
50mm lenses are dirt cheap for either Nikon or Canon if bought second hand from ebay. You get a cracking lens for this sort of work and also benifit from probably the fastest glass you’ll get for less than 100 bucks.
If your budget stretches to it, Photoshop CS3 does a superb job of stiching images together to form a panorama shot – it even alters the levels on each inage to make them all blend together.
Comment left on 3.2.2008 by 35mm Camera Lens