okay -here's the miracle drug

[smokysun]

you've been waiting for if you want to make incredibly detailed files with your small cam:

http://gigapansystems.com/gigapan-products/epic-product-page.html

amazingly it will only cost you $300.

wayne
www.pbase.com/wwp

ps. tho it looks like everything in the picture might have to be still? anybody tried it?

 

[meilicke]

President Obama's inauguration:

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15374

There are some split people here and there, but very cool.

 

[smokysun]

thanks for that reference. here's his improved version

http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=17217

oddly, this is not the way i was thinking to use the instrument. it seems perfect for the artist still-life photographer (the still could be anything still) who likes to work as a veiwcamera person. in other words put a closeup lens on and shoot 500 pics of a dirty sink. the incredible detail would make it something else. this means you can basically have a 1000 mg sensor.

i did realize i'd have to buy the $449 version to use the cameras i have:
canon g3, g5, leica d2 and d-lux 2, fuji f6000, canon rebel xti, and so on. able to use the small dslr means picking lenses that would work for different desired effects. for someone who'd like to specialize this is the price of a cheap lens. unfortunately, i'm too impatient!

wayne
www.pbase.com/wwp