Colorado: Front Range from Standley Lake

Nice, peaceful atmosphere.

Love it, great! Anna

Since we are desperately attempting to clean the house out and get moved to the mountains (garage sale, dumpsters, real

estate agents, etc.) I will show this 2001 film image for my reflections shot this week.

Very in-this-world beautiful.

Fred,
1. since you went to the level of a drum scan, i'm guessing you had it printed therefrom. where is that print now? presumably not in your garage sale?
2. my experience with the coolpix wide angle adapter has led me to look more closely at panoramic photography. One phenomenon that I'm sure is an "opportunity," more-so than a problem, is the frequent occurence of darkness at the wings of the picture. Of course there's less subtle shadow depth coming though the www presentation than one expects to see in a drum scanned print.
3. What prompted you to give-up your film-based panoramic outfit?
4. If you were to look for a film based panoramic camera these days, whose would you look at (if any)? Hasselblad is ever so modestly publicizing their x-pan, but with no price listed (i know what that means).
I can find no used "Hasselblad" x-pan's in the usual places. There are a few "Fuji-Hasselblad" x-pan's currently offered used -- I'm not sure how much is Hasselblad and how much is something else.

1. This image was made one year before purchase of my digital SLR. I have made several prints of this image. All the prints were done on my Epson 1270. I did a few using the panoramic printing capabilities of the Epson that were upward of 36" in width. No, the only print that I sold in the garage sale was accidentally sold but was very old and slightly scratched.

 

2. There are practitioners of panoramics that intentionally darken the ends of the prints and swear the prints sell more easily when done so. My vignetting is just a result of the subject I shot, a sunset.

 

3. I gave up film because this image cost me $50 to have scanned professionally and isn't significantly better than the digital images I can make.

 

4. The Hasselblad X-Pan is made by Fuji for Hasselblad. That doesn't mean it isn't of high quality, it is. I just can't imagine I would get back into film so I wouldn't buy any film camera. If I were to buy something specifically for panoramics, price being no object (which of course it is), I'd buy the Fuji 6x17 because of the interchangeable lenses and the fact that it creates a film image that is nearly 6 3/4" long in one direction. The disadvantage to it is the lack of movements. My IDEAL panoramic camera at present would be a Canon EOS 1Ds with a 24mm tilt and shift lens. Then I could do multiple digital images that are parallel and easily stitched together. I just don't think I can afford that either. You will find the X-Pan here:

 

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bh1.sph/FrameWork.class

 

All my real panoramics at present are just cropped, full-frame images. I intend to learn to properly stitch multiple frames together this summer so that I can stick with the digital SLR. I hope I've answered your questions adequately.

Oh, my, what a sky! I'm sure nature arranged to have skies like this only once in awhile so that we humans would have the rest of the time to get some work done. And of course, having a lake like this to double the effect borders on the edge of the endurable.

 

Fred, you go stitching together very many 1Ds images and you'll have to get yourself a new computer as well. That's getting up there into the way too many pixel range.

No mo money = no 1Ds = no large files to stitch.

 

Im saving for the new Canon digital SLR due out in September as well as hoping its a full-frame sensor at a reasonable price.

 

This image was scanned for printing and didn't really represent itself well so I took it into ImageReady and converted it for the net. I also left in more sky and water so it's now less of a panorama but I think it comes off better. Sorry if I confuse anyone.