Just got back a roll of Royal Gold 100 with prints and PictureCD that was
shot using the Zuiko 35mm f/2.8 PC shift in a panoramic experiment:
1. Used the OM-4 with a Winder 2 on a tripod with leveling bubble (used to
ensure the camera was level).
2. Took (for most of them) three shots, one shifted far left, one centered
and one shifted far right without moving the pan head on the tripod.
3. Took one series using a 2x teleconverter in conjunction with the 35/2.8
shift.
The results were quite surprising!!! This worked much better than ever
anticipated. Lined up overlaping 4x6 prints and there is no apparent
aberration at the edge of one print into another. One could very carefully
cut and butt the images together . . . there would still be a "seam" but
the images would line up perfectly!
Used a LivePicture PhotoVista "demo" to stitch together some of the jpegs
from the PictureCD and it did so with incredible ease. The result with a
far left, center and far right shift is the equivalent of about a 4x12
print; as if you had shot a double-wide frame with a rectilinear lens. In
other words the image is a flat field image versus one shot by the film
plane and lens about the lens node (using a pano head on the tripod).
I will be posting a couple of these photos on a web site this evening and
will send out the URL so you can see what this looks like.
Again, I was *very* pleased with the results technically. These were test
photos, so there was not much emphasis on contemplative composition, just
reasonable exposure. It works!!!!
-- John
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