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This picture is a composite of two 15mm shots using the sigma 15-30. I was about 14,300 feet up and I don't think I was concentrating to clearly. I am normally a flatlander. The winds were kicking in excess of 30 to 50 mph I had to hold my tripod down with my hand as I swiveled for the panorama. I think one shot just doesn't do it justice.



Comments and suggestions welcome...btw this is my first panorama with the S2.

Tony
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but nice .. I never took at pano with a wide angle
my widest is 28 and I also took panos with 100+
I like it .. keep em coming
Have fun
gmd
Tony the Tiger said:
This picture is a composite of two 15mm shots using the sigma
15-30. I was about 14,300 feet up and I don't think I was
concentrating to clearly. I am normally a flatlander. The winds
were kicking in excess of 30 to 50 mph I had to hold my tripod down
with my hand as I swiveled for the panorama. I think one shot just
doesn't do it justice.



Comments and suggestions welcome...btw this is my first panorama
with the S2.

Tony
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Satisfaction is the end of progress.
 
Thanks for looking, IMHO there isn't as much distortion as I was expecting to find. Any ideas on how many degrees we are looking at with 2 x 15 mm shots, which on S2 would be 22.5. Aproximately 140 degrees?

Tony
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Hi Tony,

Nice job. I can almost smell the fresh air and feel the wind.

Regards,

Mark
 
Dan thanks for the comments...I was on Trailridge Road above the tree line in the tundra zone. Right before you get to the top. It was extremely hard hiking being short of breath. Like I said I am not used to the altitude and I am not in that bad of shape. I bike around 60 miles a week.

Tony
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Hi Tony,

Very nice picture Tony - very good work and I am impressed by the lack of distorsion at 15mm.

Great scene, btw! I love panos and landscapes - keep them coming!

Regards,
Tony the Tiger said:
This picture is a composite of two 15mm shots using the sigma
15-30. I was about 14,300 feet up and I don't think I was
concentrating to clearly. I am normally a flatlander. The winds
were kicking in excess of 30 to 50 mph I had to hold my tripod down
with my hand as I swiveled for the panorama. I think one shot just
doesn't do it justice.



Comments and suggestions welcome...btw this is my first panorama
with the S2.

Tony
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Paulo Abreu, Fuji S2Pro - Nikon 18-35, 28-105, 80-200

'Buy a FujiFilm S2 Pro TODAY because ONE DAY you will be dead !'
http://www.pbase.com/psergio
 
For Fooshnick,

I used my wife's Canon software which is photstitch 3.1. It worked very well with the fuji images. I highly recommend it and using a tripod for panos.... 2 images took 45 megs total after the program trimmed the edges.

Tony

 
I used the canon software that came with my wife's G3. It is quick and very accurate. It is photostitch 3.1 ...thanks for looking

Tony
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It was real nice up there with thin altitude..could not believe how far I could see at the continental divide. Nature is awesome.. Thanks for looking Bud....

Tony

 
I think the Pano worked well because of the scene. If I would have taken pictures of a city landscape I am sure the buildings would have looked like there were falling on each other. It was very beautiful up there and it is so hard to convey the expanse of a scene without doing this technique. Thanks for the comments.

Tony
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Tony,

Very impressive. I have always admired the panos on this forum. I've never attempted one, but it is on my "things to learn" list. I take it you're liking the sigma (have been eyeing it up for the next trip I take).

Ashok
Tony the Tiger said:
This picture is a composite of two 15mm shots using the sigma
15-30. I was about 14,300 feet up and I don't think I was
concentrating to clearly. I am normally a flatlander. The winds
were kicking in excess of 30 to 50 mph I had to hold my tripod down
with my hand as I swiveled for the panorama. I think one shot just
doesn't do it justice.



Comments and suggestions welcome...btw this is my first panorama
with the S2.

Tony
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Fuji S2 Pro
Sigma 70-200 2.8 with a 1.4x extender
Tokina 28-70 2.8
Nikon 50 1.8
Nikon 80-400 VR
Nikon SB-28dx
 
Thanks Ashok.. The sigma works well. If I had it to do all over I think I would try a fixed wide angle lens. I never shoot the sigma at nothing else but 15mm. So why not use a prime? Advantage of the sigma is the price haven't really priced any other wide angle primes.

Tony
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Good point on the fixed wide angle. I probably would only use it for the 15mm length also. A fixed prime wide angle would be a good investment if I really got into landscapes (ie Mahesh). The price of the 15-30 is pretty attractive though. The closest prime that I have considered was the Sigma 20. Sigma has a 15mm fisheye, but thats not what I really want.

Ashok

ps do you have one of those Pano heads, or something of the sort. Just learning the pano lingo now. Hopefully I'll make a trip out west soon to try my skills after doing some reading. I do some "drug talks" so I get to travel if I want.

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Fuji S2 Pro
Sigma 70-200 2.8 with a 1.4x extender
Tokina 28-70 2.8
Nikon 50 1.8
Nikon 80-400 VR
Nikon SB-28dx
 
I don't have a "pano" head not sure what it would do for me. I am probably too stupid to figure it out. I have a bogen tripod with one of those bogen heads that has a squeeze trigger and you can move it on a ball. That works best for me presently. The key to a pano is to do it on a tripod if possible and have overlap with each succeeding picture. My wife had some panos that had 6 pictures combined (huge)..makes me dizzy thinking about that.

I have a friend of mine who is a cardiologist named Ashok. What a coincidence. If you give a talk in this neighborhood in Kansas let me know.

Tony
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Hi Tony,

I thought that was the place. That's about an hour or so drive from where I live.

That road was closed earlier today to clear a foot of snow from a storm last night.

Dan
Tony the Tiger said:
Dan thanks for the comments...I was on Trailridge Road above the
tree line in the tundra zone. Right before you get to the top. It
was extremely hard hiking being short of breath. Like I said I am
not used to the altitude and I am not in that bad of shape. I
bike around 60 miles a week.

Tony
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-- Dan
http://www.fujimugs.com
http://www.pbase.com/dan_wolf
 
Tony the Tiger said:
This picture is a composite of two 15mm shots using the sigma
15-30. I was about 14,300 feet up and I don't think I was
concentrating to clearly. I am normally a flatlander. The winds
were kicking in excess of 30 to 50 mph I had to hold my tripod down
with my hand as I swiveled for the panorama. I think one shot just
doesn't do it justice.
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Great pano Tony.

Good to see a pano done at 15 with the Sigma as I have just bought this lens. I guess that if this was done from only two shots that they were taken in landscape mode. I tend to use portrait mode shots for a horizontal panorama - higher resolution for printing. Usually about 5 component shots. I can't wait to try this with my new Sigma - should be capable of producing a really WIDE wide pano :-)) Just have to find an appropriate subject - hopefully the week after next when I do the tourist thing at Lord Howe Island, a very picturesque place in the SW Pacific, off Australia.
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Doug Jones
Canberra
http://www.panamagic.com.au
 
Tony,

Cool, I have the same tripod head! I'll let you know if I'm talking in your area any time soon.

Ashok

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Fuji S2 Pro
Sigma 70-200 2.8 with a 1.4x extender
Tokina 28-70 2.8
Nikon 50 1.8
Nikon 80-400 VR
Nikon SB-28dx
 
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