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Going to a long hike in mountains, which lens to choose?

Started Jun 20, 2021 | Questions thread
elfroggio
elfroggio Veteran Member • Posts: 3,228
Re: Handheld panorama stitching in the mountains
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Rightsaidfred wrote:

elfroggio wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't bother with x-t2.

Take your x100s and get used to do handheld panorama. With just panning the camera and not the body, I became good.

Ciao Elfroggio

Sounds like an interesting suggestion.

I am interested: do you use a large overlap? Or not?

Depends on what looks good. If the border has a lot of details to stitch, then small if not I have more overlap.

Why not turning the own body? Because turning the camera only comes closer to the nodal point this way, or for what reason?

The closer to the nodal point, the better the stitching will be. Often small mistakes can be ignored and won't be noticed.

Manual exposure to keep it constant?

It's best but I regularly forget and only remember later. I use autopano (the company is no longer in business but their software does a very good job) and it does a pretty good job at making the exposures even.

Other recommendations?

Portrait or landscape?

Portrait: 3 to 5 shots

Landscape: only 2 shots

BTW, these are my usual settings, they are subject to change based on the age of the caption and the direction of the wind...

Cheers,

Martin

The panos can either be stitched in Lightroom or the free Hugin.

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