[Leica] OT: Technical Question- Panning vs. WA Lens

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I've had some wide shots with the Noblex and 
Roundshot blown up and mounted on the inside of a 
drum shaped substrate. If you stand in the middle 
of this (about 16ft diameter, and 8ft high (part 
of top and bottom cropped) everything seems to 
snap into place and you can easily imagine 
yourself being there.

I did a number of these for real estate people 
who wanted to show what the view was going to be 
like from certain floors of a highrise. I climbed 
up the construction crane to the appropriate 
height, and with the Horizon took 3 or 4 shots. 3 
perfect shots would provide enough overlap, but 
usually I went for the safer route and took 4. 
The Roundshot was better, as it only took one 
405? degree shot, but then there could be no 
obstructions in place. Also, as it has a shorter 
focal length (28mm), it needed more enlargement 
and cropping, but it did have the possibility for 
a greater vertical angle of view.




At 3:43 PM -0400 4/20/11, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>They are always talking about the advantages of using a Widelux type l
>swing-lens or slit camera* over just using a wide. A wide shrinks everything
>making it all seem far far away. While a slit camera just gets it all and
>you just look from side to side in the wide format.  It seems close. This to
>me is a gold mine of image making. And I've never had a Widelux or circuit
>camera.
>But I find now with the ability to stitch and merge images later with
>different parameters its a dream come true.
>If I click once and I feel like I needed more I just move to the needed area
>and click again. But as you know I normally don't like it looking seamless.
>As it seems to me to be more interesting when you can see each shot for what
>it was.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_photography
>
>--------------------
>Mark William Rabiner
>*
>Or Noblex and Horizon.
>
>
>>  From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com>
>>  Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:38:29 -0700 (PDT)
>>  To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Subject: [Leica] OT: Technical Question- Panning vs WA Lens
>>
>>  I am trying to understand if I can take a wide angle photo using
>>  panning/stitching with a normal lens that 
>>would look like it was taken with a
>>  WA
>>  lens. My specific question is if I can get the same coverage and 
>> perspective
>>  using an 80mm Hassy lens and panning/stitching 3 or 4 overlapping shot 
>> as I
>>  could with the 40mm Hassy.
>>
>>  If so how would this best be accomplished? Standing back further with 
>> the 80
>>  than with the 40 or just at the same spot with 
>>the panning. Would the image's
>>  perspective be the same?
>>
>>  Thanks to all who can help,
>>  Bob
>>   Bob Adler
>>  Palo Alto, CA
>>  http://www.rgaphoto.com
>>
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