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Ho Beely
{K:226} 2/21/2007
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Hey, don't mention it. Please let me know if you come to HK next time. The escalator that you mentioned was in Central, Hong Kong Island. That's a transportation facility for rich men who living at the hill.
Yes my pano photos are tend to "narrow" and "shallow" side. Now I am using a standard DC camera (even without any add-on lens) to shot my pictures. I planned to buy a DC camera with 28mm lens (bx DLSR is also too expensive to me :P) after I graduate from my course. Let's see if I can change the "cover area" inside my photos. 
I'd try hard time on shoting and assembling my pano photos bx :
1. I shot picture without tripod (for no reason, I just dont want to buy a tripod)
2. Bx of in-balance level of each photo, I have to trim out some part of photos (may be this is the main reason of my photos are on the "narrow" and "shallow" side)
Actually, I did visit those subfolder yesterday morning, they are all great. And I will leave msg about what I think of the photo later (not comment, I am not like you, I am not an expert )
The following photo wasnt stitiched very well.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 2/21/2007
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Well, you certainly chose a great angle for that shot. I really like it! Personally, I find your panoramas a bit on the "narrow" or "shallow" side, i.e., the aspect ratio is rather high. I generally prefer ratios between 1:2 and 1:3.5. Perhaps that is because I am very much into wide-angle photography in general, and don't like to feel my view is in anyway restricted? But I must say you use your rather narrow view very effectively.
It is very kind of you to offer to buy me a dinner in Hong Kong. I would like to visit there again this year, and if I do, I will let you know in advance. This last time I traveled the escalators up towards the hills.
I got my Fuji Xpan second hand. It was far from new condition--looked very well used and a bit battered. But I got it for a bargain price and it has behaved perfectly--never a problem. The lens (I only have the 45mm F/4) is amazingly good. I would like the 30mm F/5.6 but it is FAR too expensive for me even second hand!
If you click on my name, and visit my portfolio, in the column on the left you will see a list of the names of my sub-folders. One of them is called "Panoramas" and another is "Spherical Panoramas." The latter, of course, are my 360-degree shots like this one of the housing estate. You will find quite a few vertical panoramas in the general panorama folder, and I would be interested to hear your opinion on any of them if you have the time to comment.
Do make your contribution to Usefilm. I know you will enjoy seeing and uploading higher definition panoramas! I have several that are 1200 x 600 and a few that are much bigger than that!
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Ho Beely
{K:226} 2/20/2007
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Thx for the prasie of the photo. I like to take pictures from unusual angle. In my mind, pano photo should always come along with new perspective of usual things like this:
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/hkblog/7zDlMxyQFRKoYaK_QhvmbQ--/blog/20070211034221402.jpg?ibtJI3FB6jA9QYW5
and this
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/hkblog/7zDlMxyQFRKoYaK_QhvmbQ--/blog/20070211034103611.jpg?ibLKI3FB5SmF0t7x
Yes , Hong Kong is a very photogenic place. Hongkonger, Chinese and lot of people with different nationality are living and travalling here. Multi-culture made this place more dynamic and more possibilities. You should come to Hong Kong more. Next time you come to Hong Kong, I buy u a dinner and guide you to some not so popular place in Hong Kong... if you like.
Actually, I didnt have chance to use Fuji Xpan b4, but I saw it at a camera shop. If I dont get wrong , it cost HK$15xxx. It's too expensive to me. :P
One more photo to you.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 2/20/2007
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Let me say first what a SPLENDID panorama this is! I also liked the vertical (red!) one of the mall, but this one at an angle makes me want to go out and try something like it myself... I can't say better than that!
I'm afraid I don't know the name of the malls I took but you'll probably recognize them. And yes, I like Hong Kong very much... A very photogenic place.
I was fortunate, when I was using the Bessaflex, to have a very good DPE shop where the assistant who did the scanning of my films was an expert, and gave me good scans on CD-ROM. It was just a little slower than having everything inside a digital camera--but of course I got much greater dynamic range in my images (something that I miss with my digital camera). It was also MUCH faster than scanning them myself, which I had to do with the large negatives from my Fuji Xpan.
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Ho Beely
{K:226} 2/20/2007
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Oh... Do you like Hong Kong? Which shopping mall that you took photo out there? I also have some HK shopping mall pano photos, like the following :
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/hkblog/7zDlMxyQFRKoYaK_QhvmbQ--/blog/20070211040401627.jpg?ibeLA3FB3UA.94CX
and
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/hkblog/7zDlMxyQFRKoYaK_QhvmbQ--/blog/20070211033640253.jpg?ibpOA3FBZaM.3VZP
Bessaflex with fisheye lens? Do you mean you have to digitize all film images on computer and stitich them together ? Seems the approach require quite a lot of processing before one pano photo get done.
To me, taking pano photos like being a conductor, pano photo is movement. I could see lines and shapes are keep changing in different rhythm by the speed and turning of angle of every snapshot, like the following one.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 2/20/2007
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Ah, Realviz. I use PTgui and these days a Nikon D200 with the 10.5mm fisheye lens. Before that I used a Bessaflex film SLR and a Russian Peleng circular fisheye lens. I was in Hong Kong visiting a friend at the New Year. (Western New Year not the Chinese New Year!) There are even two photos I took there uploaded to Usefilm. More will follow when I can make time... including a couple of panoramas taken inside shopping malls.
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Ho Beely
{K:226} 2/20/2007
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Dear Mr.Roger Williams
Thx for your quick respond. What I used to take pano photo was my Canon G2, and sometime use my mobile phone as well. All my pano pictures are assembled by Realviz software. Have u been in Hong Kong before ?
Yes, Long format Vertical image is always impress me, if you put the verical pano photo on the wall, and u walk close to it... it forced you to look up to the top of the photo and then look down... it makes you feel.... you are so small.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 2/20/2007
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Dear Mr. Beely Ho,
I am so glad you liked my panorama. Welcome to Usefilm! Once you have made your donation you can upload panoramas of any pixel size provided they are not bigger than 400k! This is very nice for looking at the details. I enjoyed looking at yours, and am very pleased to see that you, like me, enjoy taking VERTICAL panoramas. I take quite a lot of them, although slightly fewer these days now that I usually stitch 360-degree panoramas. When I was mostly using a Fuji Xpan I used to take almost as many vertical as horizontal!
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Ho Beely
{K:226} 2/20/2007
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Dear Mr.Roger Williams
This is a great pano picture, electronic cables are schematically positioned, and rest of picture elements are evenly distributed. Thx for the great picture.
I just joined this usefilm.com, I have yet donation on this site(but I will do it later). I travelled to Toyko last year, and I took some pano pictures during the trip. Here are they
http://panograph.myvnc.com/jp/index.html
Best regards
Beely Ho from Hong Kong
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The Armed Eye
{K:3563} 7/14/2006
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Thanks for looking , Roger ! Pro pano ? Great idea !
A niche probably ? You are well equipped for this job, aren't you ! :-) And you know the stitching technique as well, so youraren't restricted to the anlog side. Good luck !
Regards,
Bertram
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 7/14/2006
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Did you notice my hot dog? Nice to hear from you, Bertram. I have been enjoying your photos taken along the former railway line through Paris. Would love to take some panoramas there. I am moving into professional panorama photography, and too busy for Usefilm right now.
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The Armed Eye
{K:3563} 7/13/2006
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A bended world ! Fascinating technical view of our reality. I try to imagine we had such eyes... !! :-)
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 5/20/2006
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Thanks, Lily. Yes, that's Kuu Chan. This panorama was one of two selected as "Panorama of the Week" at www.panotools.info. If you visit, you can see what the original scene looked like without any of the fisheye distortion. Do try it!
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Tiger Lily
{K:10966} 5/20/2006
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Roger, I think I spot Kuu in the frame. These panoramas are second best only to actually being in the scene. Housing prices very steep here also. Rental or otherwise.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 5/11/2006
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Hi, Ray. Thanks for a great series of encouraging comments, again. You are by far my most consistent commenter! As for WYSIWYG, it stands for "What You See Is What You Get." In other words, all those expensive houses with their apparently tiny or non-existent gardens actually have only what you can see... in other words virtually nothing. BTW there is a list on the web of all these abbreviations. (BTW = By The Way.)
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 5/11/2006
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OK Roger ...one aspect of modern day living that I cannot get to grips with is things like WYSIWYG what does it mean. Now IF you decide to tell me I know I will exclaim 'Oh yes' and then think myself quite stupid. It took a friend to explain gently the meaning of LOL and IMHO:):):) even these smiley faces took a little while to fathom out. I thought people were making typing errors
I love this composition Roger and the wonderful reciprocal working relationship you have with your dog. Well done to you my friend on another well detailed panorama. Cheers.....Ray
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 5/10/2006
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Yes, Bobot, that is my long-suffering dog. He looks so sad when I lift up my camera, because he knows he will have to wait patiently until I have finished. (Of course, I let him sniff for as long as he likes in return.)
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{K:44058} 5/9/2006
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very interesting shot and about. Its like looking at the 360 degrees on 180. Is that your dog there? I see that the verticals are straight, very good.
very expensive, the usual japanese real estate.
nice one Roger...
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 5/9/2006
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Thank you, Paolo. I was happy that all the verticals were true... the camera has to be horizontal within a fraction of a degree, so it must have been exactly level!
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Paolo Corradini
{K:59552} 5/9/2006
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wow amazing perspective here i love to see this panoramic view. well done
PAOLO
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