Digital Panoramas

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

By: Joe Beda I dream about being able to afford 22 megapixel medium format backs.  I think that it would be great to be able to capture that much detail with one click of the shutter.  Heck, I’d love to be able to afford a Canon 1Ds.  However, for most amateur photographers that type of hardware is out of reach.  But, with a little bit of practice, you can get some of the same eye popping detail using much more modest equipment.  The answer is to take multiple exposures and stitch them together using software that costs as much as a somewhat nice dinner. Here is an example of what you can do: Image Copyright © 2004, Joe Beda, All Rights Reserved Rocks on Hillside near Waitomo, North Island, New Zealand This image is 6 different photographs that have been stitched together.  The resulting image is 9430 by 2652.  This works out to 25 megapixels.&n...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.

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