C-750 panoramas

Don Spencer · Jul 16, 2003

I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750 is terrific!

http://www.pbase.com/donald_spencer/750_panoramas

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Suzi · Jul 16, 2003

Hi Donald
I was thinking about buying the pentax 550 when I saw this C-750.

One thing that made me decide for the pentax was the small size, big zoom and very long battery life. Now when I look at your pictures I see no noise and very nice colours. The C-750 has even a larger zoom than the pentax (5x optical). Now my questions are:

What battery do you use? Lifetime (how many pictures shot whith the screen on)? How does the flash in dark situations?

i tried a minolta once and eventhough I could see nothing on the screen when I took the picture, the result was great and lots of details were visible. ..
How big is the camera, compared to your hand?
What about red eyes problems?

Thanks for your help
Suzanne

Hooligans Imagery · Jul 16, 2003

Donald do you use Photoshop? If so I want to send you an action to use on these. I have a 750 on order, partly due to the shots you posted. Thanks

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Don Spencer · Jul 16, 2003

hi Stinson,

I have Photshop 7 but it's so massive, I scarcely know where to begin with it. I'm curious to know what action you have in mind? let me know here or you can email me. thanks

Stinson said:
Donald do you use Photoshop? If so I want to send you an action to
use on these. I have a 750 on order, partly due to the shots you
posted. Thanks

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PatColburn · Jul 16, 2003

an action to use on these. >

Hooligans Imagery said:
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Does this mean you have an action for panoramas? I am just now experimenting with panoramas and would be interested in your steps.
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Bob Myers1 · Jul 16, 2003

Donald Spencer said:
I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

http://www.pbase.com/donald_spencer/750_panoramas

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Jean-Paul D. · Jul 16, 2003

Excellent !

You did a very good job, Donald. Your panoramas are amazing, colors are natural and bright. Very different from old continent landscapes, and very pleasant

Well, should the Oly C-750 UZ be an excellent substitute to C-2100 UZ ?
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Bob Rheaume · Jul 16, 2003

Hi, Don! I think you did a wonderful job on these shots, as they are most impresive. Is it just my perception, or does the 750 deliver shots with much less noise than the 730?

Bob
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JulesUK · Jul 16, 2003

Completely jealous.

I thought I recognised some of these places. I had a great trip here 2/3 years ago. Wonderful place, and your photos bring back memories.

What a drive Banff to Jasper is eh?

When you round the pass and see the Columbia Icefield right in front of you - fantastic eh? Did you go up it?

your Lake Louise pix reminded me of some great ski trips - but we never got up there in the summer.

I enjoyed your gallery - thanks.
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Don Spencer · Jul 16, 2003

thanks Bob, I had a great time getting these shots, i just wish we had more time in the mountains. After 5 years in New Jersey, the freshness of the clean mountain air.... well, I just wish I could have brought some home with me!

I'm convinced that the C-750 is much less noisy overall than the C-730. It also seems to hold the noise down through a greater depth of field. I shoot at ISO 50 as much as possible, this has to make a big difference too.
Being able to manually select ISO 50 is what convinced me to upgrade.

having a proper camera strap is an added bonus too, I'm just very happy with the C-750 overall.

Bob Rheaume said:
Hi, Don! I think you did a wonderful job on these shots, as they
are most impresive. Is it just my perception, or does the 750
deliver shots with much less noise than the 730?

Bob
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mark1000 · Jul 16, 2003

Donald Spencer said:
I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

http://www.pbase.com/donald_spencer/750_panoramas

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Just great donald, i only hope that one day i can get pics like that.

i thought BLS-1a was the best.

marko

Floyd Kessler · Jul 16, 2003

They are great shots. I'm about to get a C-750 or a C-5050. My only reservation with the 750 is the small size of the LCD screen. Can you comment on that?
Floyd

Donald Spencer said:
I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

http://www.pbase.com/donald_spencer/750_panoramas

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scotteh168694 · Jul 16, 2003

Wow, very nice shots!! I have a question! What focal length do you use for these shots? Are you zoomed all the way out, or part way in? Or did you find you can do either and still get good results?

Thanks!

Scott

Donald Spencer said:
I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

Fantomas · Jul 16, 2003

about the focal length.
It is my impression that you only used the full zoom in one panorama:
the "parker_ridge"... it is quite fuzzy.

how much zoom did you use for the rest of the panoramas?

You didn't use tripod, did you? some sections are moved.

There is very low noise, and the appearance is very smooth and pleasant.
The textures are not very detailed, but we must consider that it was cloudy

Thanks for posting them. These are the biggest panos I have ever seen.
wooooooooooohoooooooooo

scotteh said:
Thanks!

Scott

Donald Spencer said:

I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

Click to expand...

Fantomas · Jul 16, 2003

For example, the louise_0:
how many shots did you use for this one?

Donald Spencer said:
I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

http://www.pbase.com/donald_spencer/750_panoramas

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http://www.pbase.com/galleries/donald_spencer (pbase supporter)

Jase M · Jul 16, 2003

Donald Spencer said:
I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

http://www.pbase.com/donald_spencer/750_panoramas

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Hi Donald,

Congrats on some magnificent looking photos. I purchased my 750 on Monday, and have not been able to use it during day (work all the time). Tell me did u just use the camera on it's own, or do you have attachements (extra lenses ) etc? I am interested to know what manual settings you used. I have many other questions, but it seems other people have asked.

I look forward to seeing more of your photos.

Thanks,
Jase

Jase M · Jul 16, 2003

Hi Donald,

In your photo http://www.pbase.com/image/18033233 , what attachments are on the camera.

I am going to ask a silly question. Is the len housing suppose to move in and out when zooming, or just the internal lens? (please be gentle)

Jase

johno135056 · Jul 16, 2003

Jase M said:
Hi Donald,

In your photo http://www.pbase.com/image/18033233 , what attachments
are on the camera.

I am going to ask a silly question. Is the len housing suppose to
move in and out when zooming, or just the internal lens? (please be
gentle)

The lens tubes are fixed, so the filters or teleconvertens stay fixed when the lens moves. Useful filters are
-UV just for protection - particularly in hostile environments.

-A polariser. Either circular or linear is fine. Be careful with polarisers on panoramas though, as it can make matching harder
-An ND linear grad filter helps pull in the dynamic range of some photos.
-A TCON17 will give you more zoom reach.

A wide-angle lens would make panoramas easier

Don Spencer · Jul 17, 2003

LOL, good question! I'm not at all consistent enough, I generally zoom in a little bit, and for panoramas I usually hold the camera in portrait rather than landscape. I've done some panoramas with as many as 12 frames, but usually shoot around 8. For my western trip, I was so rushed, we only had three days in the rockies and I had so many places I wanted to show my wife. After living out in Calgary for 21 years, I had a long list of spots I wanted to show her!

With the C-750, the full frame is big enough that I shot some of the panos in landscape. Portrait is better in my view because it gives you some leeway to crop after building the panorama.

I also stick strictly to using a program called Panorama Factory, no need to set the camera in panorama mode. As long as the frames are identical in size and reasonably overlapped, Panorama Factory can stitch them together. I've even shot a couple of vertical ones, I'll post them soon.

scotteh said:
Thanks!

Scott

Donald Spencer said:

I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

Click to expand...

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Fantomas · Jul 17, 2003

then it is a 4*2 matrix ?

Donald Spencer said:
scotteh said:

Thanks!

Scott

Donald Spencer said:

I'm just recently back from a holiday in western Canada, Here are
some panoramas taken on my trip. I was hoping for a couple of sunny
days in the mountains but I guess you have to work with what you
get, we still had a great time. I took over a 1000 shots, the C-750
is terrific!

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

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