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Philippe
> Le 17 juin 2019 à 07:03, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> I've owned UWA lenses for many years, OMZ 18/3.5, 17-35 for Canon, Oly 9-18,
> Laowa 7.5/2 and Panny 7-14 for µ4/3.
>
> But they have soooo often not been wide enough. Familiar? For distant
> landscapes, my solution has long been to shoot a series of overlapping shots
> to merge into a panorama. Some work well in PS, others, not so much - weird
> perspective. Hugin takes care of that, but what a pain to use. I have to
> relearn the UI most times.
>
> MikeL gave me the clue, with a Fisheye shot he had corrected.
>
> The next step was finding the Imadio Fisheye-Hemi plugins for PS.
>
> I've had a Panny 8/3.5 Fishy for almost 18 months. In that time, leaving out
> tests to see it worked, I've shot only 83 photos with it. I've carried it
> around (tiny, light) for many days of shooting without using it. And yet,
> when it's right, there's no substitute.
>
> When corrected using Fisheye-Hemi, the horizontal FoV is about 150º. With a 7
> mm rectilinear lens, it's about 100º. BIG difference!
>
> I was reminded of this again in Capitol Gorge in Capitol Reef NP a couple of
> weeks ago. I wanted really wide shots, but was pretty sure that stitched
> panos, done in my casual, hand held style, would be a big pain to process, if
> they worked out at all. So I shot with the Fishy lens and corrected them to
> (close to) rectilinear in post.
>
> Here's a big set of examples, starting in Capitol Gorge, and wandering to
> Bryce NP, Mendocino and Bhutan. <cid:part1.83CFBE31.189DB036@gmail.com>
>
> Three could be done easily with a pano merge, and I do have the shots for
> them. If I ever need high rez versions, I can make them. But for the web or a
> book, these are perfect.
>
> The Bhutanese farmhouse lunch shot I know wouldn't be done any other way.
> Perhaps the gorge shots could be done well with a fancy pano head, that
> rotates around the lens center on a tripod. I'll never know. I was there to
> walk the gorge, experience it, not spend most of limited time with good light
> on a few panos and hike only part of the gorge, carrying an extra bunch of
> heavy gear..
>
> Fishy Moose
>
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