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Re: 85mm f/2.8D PC Micro Nikkor
Erik Krause 2008-Jan-07 22:17:00
On Monday, January 07, 2008 at 22:16, Hans Nyberg wrote:
> > Has anyone tested 85mm f/2.8D PC Micro Nikkor? Can we use this
> > lens' ability to shift in order to stitch our panoramas like Noblex?
>
> Short answer NO.
> Shift is a bad idea for panoramas.
It is possible to stitch panoramas from a shift lens, but there are a
lot of problems. And it's not necessary, because there is no need for
a shift lens, if you use a decent stitcher.
Panotools (PTGui, PTMac, hugin) simulate a shift lens perfectly (to
be exact: perfectly in terms of geometry, not in terms of depth of
field of course).
Simply shoot tilted up or down, then correct for the horizon. For
details see http://wiki.panotools.org/Perspective_correction
(Only for clarification: you don't need to perspective correct your
image prior to stitching - it's all done in one go)
best regards
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de