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One failed, one successful sweep pano with GX7

Started Oct 8, 2016 | Photos thread
uRebel Rob Senior Member • Posts: 1,537
Re: Minor hint...

Hen3ry wrote:

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Worked fine with the 12-35 on @ 26 except:

  1. it seemed to want to never stop! I wanted to stop the thing just past the ship (sweeping left to right) but despite my removing my finger from the shutter button, it kept hammering away!

It's hard to stop exactly where you want it to, but you can stop it about where we want:

Pan one or two exposures (clicks) past where you want to end the photo, and Just stop panning (or even pan backwards). It seems like the GX7 drops the last photo or two, which is why I say pan one or two exposures past. And of course the camera decides when it takes the photo, so the end probably won't be exactly where you want it to.

But you can exactly control the start of the pan, so either set the pan direction the other way, or flip the camera upside down, and pan the other direction.

But as others said, you have more control on PP stitching. What I do now is a couple autopanorama photos and then a set (or two) for PP stitching.

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