shawn
Veteran
For digital panoramic phots I typically use my A7RII with the square framing to get a 3:1 AR (or 2:1 or 1:1) with wide angle lenses. With my Tamron 17-28 I get almost exactly the same horizontal FOV as the XPAN with the 30 and 45mm lenses. I can go much wider with the Voitlander 12mm. Sigma and Fuji MF digital have built in panoramic AR modes.
I wanted to see if I could get back to any easy to use digital setup that gives more of a Horizon/Noblex/rotating lens type look to panoramics but without taking 2 or 3 shots with the same camera due to the differences in timing between the shots and the less spontaneous nature of shooting that way. Years ago I had a 3 Coolpix A setup for this but it was somewhat difficult to use due to trying to sync the three bodies settings/focus and having to remove the cameras from the mounts to charge batteries and to download the photos.
The DXO One in standalone mode is fairly flexible. I figured two of these could make an interesting and very small panoramic camera.
This is my first real try with 3d design software:
It is small. About 2/3s the width of a Barnack and a little taller and deeper.
Currently I have a 40 degree angle between the cameras. The horizontal FOV of each camera is about 58 degrees. I think I have around a 100 degree horizontal FOV right now. Shooting today all of the shots blended fine. I might push it out to 45 degrees between the bodies, when I did a couple of tests at 50 degrees they weren't blending in LR.
As far as the camera setup goes I have them set in Aperture Priority mode at f4. Hyperfocal focus (should be from about 5' to infinity), minimum shutter speed of 1/25th and ISO locked at 100. You can only change these settings when connected to an iphone so I wanted something that would be fairly flexible. Setup this way I basically hold the camera like binoculars, frame and press both shutter buttons together. Lightroom blends the potentially differing exposures between the shots well.
These are my first test shots...
The file management/blending was easy in Lightroom. I just bulk rename the DNG files from each camera to add Left or Right to the files and import them all into Lightroom. Sort the files by capture time (the clocks are synced) and the panoramic pairs are lined up. I just group all the pairs and then blend them in lightroom. Took maybe 10 minutes to do all these shots and I don't have to remove the cameras from the mount to get the pictures or to charge the batteries. I can even shoot with an external battery connected to them for many more shots.
Next version of the camera should be able to loose a little height as the base is thicker than it needs to be. I'll also get rid of the sharp pointed corners and get the cameras a little more secure in there.
I also have a three camera rig designed (should be about 140 degree horizontal FOV) but I haven't printed it yet. Want to work out a better shutter release for three cameras first and keep tweaking the 2 camera design at this point.
Shawn
I wanted to see if I could get back to any easy to use digital setup that gives more of a Horizon/Noblex/rotating lens type look to panoramics but without taking 2 or 3 shots with the same camera due to the differences in timing between the shots and the less spontaneous nature of shooting that way. Years ago I had a 3 Coolpix A setup for this but it was somewhat difficult to use due to trying to sync the three bodies settings/focus and having to remove the cameras from the mounts to charge batteries and to download the photos.
The DXO One in standalone mode is fairly flexible. I figured two of these could make an interesting and very small panoramic camera.
This is my first real try with 3d design software:
It is small. About 2/3s the width of a Barnack and a little taller and deeper.
Currently I have a 40 degree angle between the cameras. The horizontal FOV of each camera is about 58 degrees. I think I have around a 100 degree horizontal FOV right now. Shooting today all of the shots blended fine. I might push it out to 45 degrees between the bodies, when I did a couple of tests at 50 degrees they weren't blending in LR.
As far as the camera setup goes I have them set in Aperture Priority mode at f4. Hyperfocal focus (should be from about 5' to infinity), minimum shutter speed of 1/25th and ISO locked at 100. You can only change these settings when connected to an iphone so I wanted something that would be fairly flexible. Setup this way I basically hold the camera like binoculars, frame and press both shutter buttons together. Lightroom blends the potentially differing exposures between the shots well.
These are my first test shots...
The file management/blending was easy in Lightroom. I just bulk rename the DNG files from each camera to add Left or Right to the files and import them all into Lightroom. Sort the files by capture time (the clocks are synced) and the panoramic pairs are lined up. I just group all the pairs and then blend them in lightroom. Took maybe 10 minutes to do all these shots and I don't have to remove the cameras from the mount to get the pictures or to charge the batteries. I can even shoot with an external battery connected to them for many more shots.
Next version of the camera should be able to loose a little height as the base is thicker than it needs to be. I'll also get rid of the sharp pointed corners and get the cameras a little more secure in there.
I also have a three camera rig designed (should be about 140 degree horizontal FOV) but I haven't printed it yet. Want to work out a better shutter release for three cameras first and keep tweaking the 2 camera design at this point.
Shawn
