Gerald,
I still get a chill down my spine when I open up images from my IQ160 (or any back actually)/Alpa with either SK or Rodie's. Literally a 'holy crap' moment when I see the staggering detail that you just don't see even on the IQ's LCD.
My only worry is that this is the start of a very slippery, and expensive, slope. I'm already planning my next couple of lens purchases
Btw, you're a stud in my book mounting a TC on an automated pano mount. Now THAT's panoramic shooting! :thumbs: I assume that you've got no auto linkage in place - just using the mount to position and then you manually fire correct?
Correct - manually cock the shutter, hit the wake-up button, fire the shutter, move on to the next position. With the 70mm, it will take 92 shots to do a full spherical pano. Depending on the weather, I may try to shoot one tomorrow morning. The new hand-held control for the Rodenstock e-shutter can't come soon enough
Gerald,
Are you shooting an LCC? It looks like light fall off across the individual frames which even autopano can't fix. LCC correction would even that out and improve the blend.
No, and you're absolutely correct. I'll shoot an LCC to correct the vignetting tomorrow, and re-stitch.
Here's a crop from a 20-shot pano I took an hour or so before that one:
Virtual Tour generated by Panotour
As the URL suggests, that's a quick rough-stitch. I'll work on fixing the vignetting on that one as well.