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Simple question and hopefully a simple answer. Having a conversation with some one trying to make a panoramic landscape the other night by stitching a number of pics together. The question is - Is there a standard measurement for a panoramic scene ie 6" * 4'' is industry standard. I thought the 1:3 ratio (eg 4" high * 12" wide) would be a starting point but my off sider said whatever crop looks best is usually the best option.

Cheers In Advance.


hrpremier

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I don't believe there is an 'industry standard.' I've never heard of one. The width of your image depends on the size of your subject I would image.

In the days before stitching the premier panoramic cameras were 6x17 (eg linhof technorama or fuji 617), that is they produced a neg 6cm by 17cm, so that might be where you heard the 1:3 ratio.

As far as stitching goes if you shooting in portrait mode i find 4 shots works well, as you have a bit of overlap and gets you cloes to the 1:3. Having said that just shoot as many as you feel needed, i have some 8 or 9 shots pano's and they look a OK,and I printed them at 900mm x around 200mm. Although I think they look a little too long.

Robert

Really long panos make excellent bookmarks. This one did.



This is my Pano gallery. As you can see there is quite a varied number of widths.
http://www.stevekilburn.com/gallery/292 ... 5227_znaTJ

I don't think it really matters anymores.

....... there is no set size to panos....... in days gone by the size of panos was governed by cut photographic paper sizes used in the darkroom, and how many you could get out of a sheet....... today it will depend on the number of images you are stitching together and if they are vertical or horizontal along with your final crop.......... it all comes back to what you like........ long and thin, or not so long and deep..... or some thing else