+50 Megapixel m4/3 (We've Never Had It SoGood part 2)

More fun with m4/3 and manual lenses:



That image was originally a 50+ megapixel stitch generated from a 3x3 array.

Lens was Helios44K-4 58/2.0, natural light.

Software used was Microsoft ICE (free download, product from MS Research). I have trouble finding fault with the output, especially given that no interaction is necessary - you just drop a bunch of images on the window, it does the rest automatically. There is control over cropping, projection etc if required.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hindesite/4189920728/in/photostream

Did you use a spherical pan head or anything of the sorts, to calibrate your rotation around the nodal point, or did the software just do an amazing job?
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Cloverdale, B.C., Canada
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention!

Lovely flower, by the way, and I normally detest flower pictures. You have given me something new to obsess over!
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Best regards,
Jonathan Kardell
'You are not what you think, you are that which allows thought to manifest.'

While I like it all, florals don't do as much for me as other subjects - this is quite a fine, appealing study. (I'll venture that I just haven't seen enough florals taken with such determination [g]).

Did you use a pano rig (which)? I've not put much thought yet into panos on the Pen (but I've got an RSS rig, and I'm waiting on an L-plate - so soon will be ready to play).

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...Bob, NYC

'Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't.' - Little Big Man

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I don't have a pano head, so I just used my old tripod with pan and tilt head. I used a focusing rail to get the pan pivot under the approximate optical centre of the lens (really, I was just guessing since I've never measured this lens properly) and I couldn't do anything about the offset in the tilt plane since I don't have an L bracket.

So I just did it anyway, the software handles it fine; it is very tolerant. There's not too much obvious foreground/background separation to worry about parallax effects anyway.

We already have such great gear, don't let not having the next big thing stop you from experimenting. Certainly all the software tools are freely available.