Anyone with a CFV that wants to do sweeping panoramic landscapes get out there and snap up a PC Mutar NOW!!!!!!!
I hadn't tried it yet, but wondered if it would help solve the 1.5X crop factor issue for controlled wide work. If you shoot with a 40mm straight, and then crop pano you lose a lot of resolution for making big enlargements.
So, since it's raining here thanks to IKE, I tried it. What a no brainer solution. :thumbs:
Heck, it wasn't even a problem turning the camera on it's side for landscape oriented shots. Just used a 45 degree prism. (I have an old 90 degree long tube prism I'm gonna modify for the 203FE).
So, you just put the PC Mutar in the zero position, center compose and meter manually, extreme shift one way: shoot, extreme shift the other way: shoot. Done.
Select the 2 DNGs for Photoshop Merge ... and a few seconds later you have a slick Panoramic 12" X 23" tiff file from those 9X9 Micro pixels we love so much. An easy 24" X 46" print from the "Little Back That Could." What's cool is that the square is something of an advantage in that it yields a nice ratio with 2 quick shots
Here some of my "rainy day" experiments ... one outside shot from the shelter of my garage, and a indoor close-up about 6 feet away from Schnuffy hunkered down on the couch. A-freakin'-mazing detail. :thumbup:
I hadn't tried it yet, but wondered if it would help solve the 1.5X crop factor issue for controlled wide work. If you shoot with a 40mm straight, and then crop pano you lose a lot of resolution for making big enlargements.
So, since it's raining here thanks to IKE, I tried it. What a no brainer solution. :thumbs:
Heck, it wasn't even a problem turning the camera on it's side for landscape oriented shots. Just used a 45 degree prism. (I have an old 90 degree long tube prism I'm gonna modify for the 203FE).
So, you just put the PC Mutar in the zero position, center compose and meter manually, extreme shift one way: shoot, extreme shift the other way: shoot. Done.
Select the 2 DNGs for Photoshop Merge ... and a few seconds later you have a slick Panoramic 12" X 23" tiff file from those 9X9 Micro pixels we love so much. An easy 24" X 46" print from the "Little Back That Could." What's cool is that the square is something of an advantage in that it yields a nice ratio with 2 quick shots
Here some of my "rainy day" experiments ... one outside shot from the shelter of my garage, and a indoor close-up about 6 feet away from Schnuffy hunkered down on the couch. A-freakin'-mazing detail. :thumbup: