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bruce_hemming 2005-Dec-23 12:28:00
The plan was to put up a really spectacular hand held pano of the fantastic torch lit Bonfire
Night parades that we have here in Sussex in November - however!
I had counted on having my new EOS 5D by then but buying it turned out to be a little
more difficult than expected. What should have been a straight forward transaction
turned into a nightmare and finally descended into farce when Canon UK sent my dealer a
20D in a 5D box! You should have seen his face - and mine - when he opened it.
I finally got the camera last Friday, along with a lovely 360 Precision head (no complaints
there - Matt's service was great).
Instead I have pulled out an earlier pano made with my old CP5K and Kiwi combo.
<http://www.bhphoto.biz/pano/bar%20riccardo.html>
I expect that just about everyone has moved on to DSLR's by now so this is really old
technology and the only point of interest is that with multi row and multi image capture
you can get an extended dynamic range by changing the exposure between shots. With
the ASA set to 800 I used aperture priority and allowed the shutter speed to set itself -
anything between 1\2 and 8 seconds. Quality would have been better still if I had used
RAW capture but the terribly slow write to card time of the CP5K precluded that. As it was
it took more than ten minutes to shoot using fine JPEG.
At least I can now get down to seriously playing with the 5D and 360 over the holidays -
maybe there is a Santa afterall.
Happy Holidays.
Best
Bruce