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Panoramic Images of Places Around the World |
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These images are for the personal use of individuals in the Internet worldwide community. Commercial use is strictly forbidden without written permission from the author. Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 David P. Pivin.
These pictures are all composites of multiple shots, taken with a hand-held standard 35mm camera while swiveling my body, with a slight overlap on each side (the pictures, not the body). I never use a tripod for these shots, anyone can easily hold the camera level enough by hand. The key is to keep a common reference point at the same height as you move it from close to the right edge to close to the left edge of the camera's viewfinder. This is probably easiest to do with a single-lens reflex camera rather than a point-and-shoot rangefinder.
I used a Konica FT-1 with mostly a 35mm f2.8 wide-angle lens or sometimes a 55mm f1.4 normal lens. After going through normal photo processing, the 4"x6" photos were scanned on a flatbed scanner at 150 dpi and combined and edited into a single picture with Adobe Photoshop. Finally, they were then exported as a JPEG file, quality level set at 'good' and 72dpi. This results in files which are not too large for viewing on the WWW. For example, the Sedona picture started as six 1.1 MByte 150 dpi scan files. The full photoshop file was 9.6 Mbytes after editing. The final JPEG file is only 111 Kbytes.