I have a friend that only considers his curcuit camera as a true pano. My
Xpan begs to differ.
I don't care for the particular distortion of the swing lens cameras, but
prefer the Xpan version.
Bill Pearce
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From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Couple vertical panoramics
> Some people regard a true panoramic camera as one with a moving or
> swinging lens - Nobelx, Widelux, Horizon, etc., or even the whole
> camera rotating. Something like a Linhof 6x17 is a wide format camera
> taking a letterbox shaped image with a wide rectilinear lens. With
> this little compact and other Sony's with the feature, you 'swing' or
> sweept the camera and get the consequent distortion. That bridge is
> curved but the swing has straightened it out.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 28/10/2009, at 8:58 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Looks good to me. I didn't understand "swing" vs "letterbox".
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>>> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/sony_panoramas
>>> Andrew Fildes
>>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm just playing with a new Sony TX-1 compact -
>>>> Small sensor quality but fast and you can keep redoing it to get it
>>>> right and it's real pano - swing not letterbox.
>>>
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