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Subject: [OM] Re: Looking for Panorama advice
From: David Carter <spotz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:01:36 +1300
for the ultimate in panorama cameras there's always a Kodak Cirkut

David

iwert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am looking for some good advice on making a panorama.
> 
> We are currently finishing a new building complex in the centre of a small 
> Belgian town. We want to present to the client a panorama of the city taken 
> from the highest of the two towers (18 floors, the other one is 14 floors... 
> these buildings are the highest of the small town). At the moment it is 
> winter here, deadline is three weeks from today.
> 
> Sun is low, even at noon. And we want to offer a full panorama (360 degrees, 
> framed as one longe strip).
> 
> I have three main questions:
> 
> 1: Equipment.
> 
> Do I go for wide, shift or normal lens? I have the following available: 
> 18f3.5, 21f2, 24shift, 35 shift, 50f2, 100f2.
> My gut feeling is the 24 or 35 shift, which I then would use in portrait 
> mode, shifted about 1/2 down, as to catch more of the surroundings. (however, 
> the tower is square, and I 'll be standing in the middle of the platform, so 
> there would then be much platform to see as well.)
> 
> 2: taking the actual panorama:
> 
> - I was thinking of drawing a big circle on the top deck (about 20m square), 
> as close as possible to the border, divide into 24 or 36, and take a picture 
> from that point straight outward. This way I can leave out much of the deck. 
> BUT WOULD THIS WORK????
> 
> - Standing in the center is impossible, since there is a structure there, 
> (unfortunately too smaal to stand on with tripod)
> 
> - I will be there with the sun in my back, but since the pano is 360 degrees, 
> it will also be straight in front! I was thinking of taking 3 or 4 full 
> series of 24-36 images, bracketed over -1, -1/2, 0, +1/2, compose them all, 
> and then, in PS CS composing them to one image, so the exposure can be "even".
> 
> 3: Any advice on film?
> 
> I'ld go for slide, fuij velvia 50 or sensia 100...
> 
> Many thanks for any advice!
> 
> Iwert.
> 
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