Panoramic camera?

[philcoop]

just wondering if anyone has ever used a panoramic camera before or has any advice on them, so far i have found one called Fotoman 624. The reason i ask is i would like to get involved into start taking panoramic shots, so any advice would be appreciated. thanks

examples of some of my pictures can be seen on

http://bondshots.blogspot.com/

[sirhc55]

You could use this: http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/f934.cfm

Or, better still, just stitch a series of pics together - it’s cheaper

[ATJ]

As Chris says, just stitch a number of photos together. If you want to get really serious, get a panorama head for your tripod. This places the camera in the correct place so that as you rotate it, it takes the angle of view and focal plane into consideration so that one side of one shot exactly matches the other side of the next shot and so on. A normal tripod won't do this.

[jdear]

Hi there!
My friend takes landscape (panoramic) photos for a living down here in the Illawarra area - his website is deekramer.com - feel free to contact him and ask him stuff and tell him Jonathan sent you. Better yet - if your ever down Wollongong way we could hook up and Ill take you out to see his Gallery / meet him.

He has a xpan, noblex etc.

Im not sure you need to start out with a 6x24 camera - ID see how you go with something more like a noblex. That said there are cheaper 624's than the fotoman - There is a chinese version and you can still put your large format lenses - schneider / nikkors etc on them and get amazing results.

Xpans are no longer in production so they are geting $$. There is a version made by fuji (TX-2) which is being made still and is the same product. (japan its fuji TX-2 and ROW it is hasselblad xpan)

If you are going to get serious - sticthing photos doesnt cut it. You can't blow them up large (as apposed to a 6x17/6x24 positive neg) I can assure you there won't be many professional landscape photographers shooting their pano's with digital cameras.

You can't visualise a pano with a digital camera - nothing beats using a pano-wide viewfinder to compose your photo instead of um click, rotate, click rotate - I think that we well composed!

my 3c

Jonathan

[philcoop]

thanks chris, nice idea for the Seitz 6x17 but a tad too expensive for me, so i will keep looking, although stitching photos together is cheaper, i still like the look of shots taken on a panoramic camera, for e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14895373@N ... panoramic/

i assume those pictures where..

[sirhc55]

thanks chris, nice idea for the Seitz 6x17 but a tad too expensive for me, so i will keep looking, although stitching photos together is cheaper, i still like the look of shots taken on a panoramic camera, for e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14895373@N ... panoramic/

i assume those pictures where..

The pics are by Paul Kowalski and he uses a medium format panoramic 617 film camera

[wider]

i've been watchin this guy's work for a while and he uses a noblex 135. not sure on their cost though, but i really like the image it produces

http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~kuri/panorama/thum2005.html

[agriffiths]

How's this for a Panoramic camera .

http://www.lensaloft.com.au

With a bit of practice stitching can produce fantastic results.