Rand
Kodak, in their Workshop Series Book "Lenses for 35 mm Cameras", endorse
the use of a shift lens for composite panoramic shots. They actually
classify this use as one of the three major applications of a shift lens.
To quote the last paragraph of the section on shift lenses from this book:
"Begin by levelling the camera and pointing it toward the middle of your
subject scene. Then shift the lens all the way to one side for the first
exposure, and then all the way to the other side for the second. You will
end up with two pictures that, though overlapping, can be fitted together
exactly to form one image with no noticeable distortion"
Cheers
Ross Waite
-----Original Message-----
From: Rand E. [SMTP:rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 5:07 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Shift Lens Panoramic?
John,
I used to do montages all the time. What I used was a fixed aperture
of f8, 60 foot long lens system with two magnification settings Low and
High. This was sticking straight up from a mobile tube 33 feet in
diameter and 273 feet long called a submarine.
With the concept that the pictures taken had more value if they were
true "candid" the submarine stayed submerged. I did get quite a few
sessions where I used as many as a dozen shots to make one montage.
Where I am going with this, I think, is that the shift lens, the
wonderful thing that it is, is probably the last lens to use for a
montage unless you don't use the shift.
You will likely never get the adjacent frames to match because your
perspective will be different on the various shots.
Rand E.
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"John A. Lind" wrote:
>
> Shift Lens Users:
>
> This weekend and early next week, I'm going to try an experiment using
the
> 35mm shift lens for a panoramic. The idea is to tripod the OM-4 with
> winder and remote release, level it, then shift left, center and right
> shooting color negative. After developing, I will attempt to graft the
> prints together.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has attempted this, and how well it did or
did
> not work, and how any problems encountered were hopefully resolved.
>
> -- John
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