Ross Waite wrote:
> 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.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "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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If the panorama doesn't work out, and you only shifted the lens about 2.5
inches, you could aways use them for stereo cards.
yours seeing doubles,
Garry D. Lewis
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