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By: Bernard Languillier

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Image quality... Although I am convinced that the essence of top level landscape photography lies elsewhere, there is no questioning the impact of a very large sharp print. 
A fascinatingcomparison of high-end digital backswas recently published atThe Luminous Landscape. The conclusion that struck me most was that a casually processed 39MP file is real close to a very well scanned 4X5 transparency. 
Is there a way for rest of us to get close to these wonders without selling our sailing boat? 
There is. It is called stitching. Quoting somebody whose name I forgot, –"Stitching is the Linux of image quality,"– a mostly dirt cheap method to get sky wide prints with huge potential but some limitations, just like Linux in a way. 
Stitching has been around for some time. The most commonly practiced method isspherical stitching. The camera is rotated around the entrance pupil of the lens so as to record a facetted...

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