When I started shooting panos, I noticed that some of my assembled images did not quite align properly.

It was not the camera, the software, or, I thought, the technique used. In all cases I was shooting using the same camera and the software was the same.

Assuming it was the software that was doing a lousy job, I experimented with all packages that were available. At one time I had six different trial packages installed...

The problem "stitches"...

Frank Lopes

I hate blog posts that sound like they might be educational, but end up being nothing more than attempts to get conversation going. That strategy is welcome in a forum, I do it myself all the time. But blogs should be an offering of knowledge, opinion, or just interesting thoughts, not a plea for readers to supply same.

Here's an example: Do You Really Need Photoshop?

It has a great title, and got linked from another blog (the point, I expect). But the title question...

Doug Nelson

As anything else in life, there are degrees of proficiency in the panoramic capture realm.

There are panorama photographers that dabble in the hobby and then there are Panorama Photographers that via the techniques employed and technologies used take the art of pano capture to whole new level.

These are some of the more interesting items that I've come across recently.


The Cube

The wildest looking tripod head I've seen in a long time,...

Frank Lopes

I have been noticing an interesting trend locally in recent months. It has been the rebirth, so to speak, of medium format photography. To be more specific it has been a surge of the local population shooting 120 film with Holga Cameras.

For those of you not familiar with the Holga, it is a cheap plastic toy camera that is made in China. They do not offer much control over the results, focusing is limited, vignetting is extreme and they all leak light…yet they are getting more popular...

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