Retina IIIc Panorama

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<center><i>Ballard Canyon, Los Olivos California</i></center><p>

 

Just because I shoot with a 50 year old camera doesn't mean I can't produce digital

panoramas! This was taken with my Retina IIIc on Portra 160nc using 11 vertical

frames. I used the Retina as it is easy to carry on my bicycle. <p>

I just put each frame on a layer in photoshop and blended them together as best I

could. And it wasn't easy as my scanner made each frame a different color and

density. Either that, or the shutter on the camera makes a different exposure each

time, but I don't think so.<p>

 

Hope you like it, but I'm starting to envy some of these cool classics that I see on this

forum. Maybe I should get a 6x9 folder?

Very nice stitching job! If you want to try that with an older classic you might look at putting some 120 or even 35mm film in one of the big format Brownies that took something like 116 film.

Yeah baby! That's some kind of stitch witchery there. Nice shot.

 

Have you printed it out? I just saw in the paper section at Adorama that some company is making inkjet sheets cut for XPan &/or 617 panoramas. So as my wife explained, that's $50 in paper making me want to go spend $1500 in order to use it. She's my savior with those numbers. Get thee behind me, devil.

Great photo, and you are a master at PS.

It is a gorgeous image.

Nice! I've been wanting to try this for some time. In Vuescan, there is an option to lock your scanner setting which would probably be useful.

D*mn, I need a wider monitor. That is quite exquisite, and the misty-morning view evokes acute memories.

Wow! Good work!

Jorn,

 

Now you can tell your wife that you can make panoramas with an old cheap camera.

Of course, you'll have to spend a few dollars on a film scanner...

 

And Mike,

 

I used vuescan and checked the "exposure lock" feature and scanned with color

correction set to "none". While the indicated exposure (vuescan shows you the

numbers for the exposure) didn't seem to change, the exposure was clearly changing

with each frame. I even tried rescanning a couple frames and the 2nd try looked just

like the first. The exposure just didn't lock. Perhaps it only works when batch

scanning.

 

Thanks for the great feedback everyone!

 

Sorry about the wide display, but it is just too small on the screen otherwise.

 

-bruce

Knocked flat on my ass by this one... lovely, and what perseverance!

BG, I have to keep comming back to this photo. This is what I saw in my head when I was in Italy 2 years ago driving in Tuscany. I was in a car with 3 non-photographers and I wanted to stop and photograph a vinyard. It was late in the day and I decided not to put the other thru a photo session. Thanks to you ,I can now look at a photo of what was in my minds I .

<i>BG, I have to keep comming back to this photo. This is what I saw in my head

when I was in Italy 2 years ago driving in Tuscany. I was in a car with 3 non-

photographers and I wanted to stop and photograph a vinyard. It was late in the day

and I decided not to put the other thru a photo session. Thanks to you ,I can now

look at a photo of what was in my minds I .</i><p>

 

Michael,<p>

Coming from such an accomplished photographer as yourself, I'm flattered. I'm sure

if you saw it in your head, it would have been awsome!<p>

About those non-photographers in the car...that's why I use a bike.

Stunning - a great mix of technology (Retina, Photoshop) and skills (photographic, digital) all combined in the hands of a master! WoW!