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Re: 28mm PC ..... 85mm f/2.8D PC Micro Nikkor
Roger D. Williams 2008-Jan-08 05:18:00
Dear Olivier,
How nice to hear from you. My own rotary camera was also made by Gildas!
Voyageur, of course... Excellent constructions and not too difficult to
use. I love the remote control!
I use the Epson film scanner for the 19cm long negatives. How do you scan
them?
Roger W.
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:38:53 +0900, olivier satnet
<#removed#> wrote:
> Hi roger .... completely OK with you ,
> i use it too with my "voyageur" proto of gildas Lelostec ....a friend
> who build cameras ...
> very good image is gived in 360 images on 220 film with PC lenses ....
>
> Bests, Olivier .
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roger D. Williams
> To: #removed#
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: 85mm f/2.8D PC Micro Nikkor
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> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:13:58 +0900, Hans Nyberg <#removed#>
> wrote:
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> > On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Aykut Erdogdu 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.
>
> Well, it's a bad idea for STITCHED panoramas, but ideal for ROTARY
> cameras. I use a 28mm Nikkor on my 120 film rotary camera, and I
> think the 85mm focal length would limit this lens's usefulness in
> most panorama applications used (unlike me) with standard 35mm film.
> The shift function would allow useless floor images to be replaced
> with the more interesting higher features of the objects in view.
> The one thing you can't do with cylindrical panoramas is point the
> camera up. The corrections are very difficult to perform and result
> in most cases in too much loss if the image when trimming it to
> rectangular format.
>
> I can imagine the 85mm lens producing a nice panorama of a rim of
> mountains... <g>
>
> Roger W.
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