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In order to test the new panorama feature, I decided to repost a few digital stitches. This stitch was made from five photos taken with the little Canon S100 at the bottom of the Glen Canyon Dam (Lake Powell is behind the concrete to the right and the Colorado river flowing to the Grand Canyon to the left). As the S100 was only a 2 Megapixel camera, each picture has a resolution of only 1200x1600. However, stitching them together resulted in a 1384x3795 picture. I had a 4ft tall print made for my office. Pretty impressive.
Some other stats: Focal length was 5.4mm, focus distance 63.5m, aperture 7.1 for the top two and 2.8 for the bottom three pictures, and shutter speeds between 1/250s and 1/750s.
First uploaded 9/4/2004 as http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=541230.
Yes, with panoramas as with so many things, it's easy when you know how... sharing tips and techniques will surely be a big part of the PIG. (Great name, huh! )
Thanks for the details, Jurgen. Pretty impressive for a simple feature given away with the camera. I use the new and greatly improved PTgui software. Thanks, too, for the offer of help with the PIG (= Panorama Interest Group).
I have to admit that I used the camera's "idiot mode" for this picture. Both Canon Elph pocket digital cameras I have (S100 from early 2001 and S400 from 2003) have a stitch support mode and they come with pretty good stitching software.
In the stitch support mode, the camera's LCD display helps you to find the best overlap. I believe (though I don't know for sure) that the camera locks in the white balance for the entire series, but that the aperture and exposure time are adjusted as necessary. The camera could do this easily as it keeps the previous picture to show you the overlap guides.
Anyway. Even with the help of that mode, stitches are not easy.
Looking forward to the panorama "special interest group" in Usefilm. Let me know how I can be of help.
Opps. Looks like the new Usefilm does not like pasts from MS Word ...
Roger,
I have to admit that I used the camera’s "idiot mode" for this picture. Both Canon Elph pocket digital cameras I have (S100 from early 2001 and S400 from 2003) have a stitch support mode and they come with pretty good stitching software.
In the stitch support mode, the camera’s LCD display helps you to find the best overlap. I believe (though I don’t know for sure) that the camera locks in the white balance for the entire series, but that the aperture and exposure time are adjusted as necessary. The camera could do this easily as it keeps the previous picture to show you the overlap guides.
Anyway. Even with the help of that mode, stitches are not easy.
Looking forward to the panorama "special interest group" in Usefilm. Let me know how I can be of help.
I have to admit that I used the camera’s “idiot mode†for this picture. Both Canon Elph pocket digital cameras I have (S100 from early 2001 and S400 from 2003) have a stitch support mode and they come with pretty good stitching software.
In the stitch support mode, the camera’s LCD display helps you to find the best overlap. I believe (though I don’t know for sure) that the camera locks in the white balance for the entire series, but that the aperture and exposure time are adjusted as necessary. The camera could do this easily as it keeps the previous picture to show you the overlap guides.
Anyway. Even with the help of that mode, stitches are not easy.
Looking forward to the panorama “special interest group†in Usefilm. Let me know how I can be of help.
Wow! (a word that gets overworked, and not one I use very often). Great stitching! This is a really wonderful panorama. I note you varied the exposures for the various shots. Didn't that give you tremendous problems when stitching? Or was there so much overlap that you could selectively blend them over a wide enough area to hide the seams?
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