Denton Taylor <denton@xxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake
thusly:
>
> Thanks.
>
> You set a simple camera vertically on a tripod with a head that's marked in
> degrees. You attach a wide-angle lens at least 28mm. You take a series of
> images in a circle, every so many degrees apart. You should meter first and
> select a single manual exposure.
Addendum to Denton's excellent advice: If you're shooting an interior
panorama (or other closeup subject), a 28mm lens is too short---the
"cylindrical distortion" (or whatever it's called) is too extreme and
the edges don't line up.
Indoors, you need to either use a 50mm lens, or overlap the pictures
by a large margin.
(I discovered this the hard way a few weeks ago)
cjb.
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