Re: Lines are not easy draw sometimes

[CraigClint@xxxxxxx]

virt360@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< Lets draw a line

Everybody that covers 80 degrees and over with their camera are 
panoramist.(Is that the case of 99% of this list?)>>

Let's not draw a line. Yes, my camera covers more than 80 degrees, but I'm 
getting new lenses that cover 52 and 32 degrees. The format will be 1:3 so 
the viewer will not be aware of what the angle of coverage is, and shouldn't 
care.

<<  At my idea a panoramic picture  has to cover, not a wide angle  of view 
but a very wide angle of view.(like 24mm focal length for a 35mm format)
But in reality, i think it’s the caracteristic format of presentation (ratio 
1:3 and over) that  reveals the panoramic picture >>

Your last point is the important one. It is the presentation and the feeling 
one gets from looking at photograph in a "panoramic" format. It is the sense 
of a wide view, even if the lens used is of telephoto proportions. You can't 
always get close enough to use a wide angle, and if you insist on using a 
wide angle for purist reasons it can be really boring. 

While some insist that you must cover a very wide swath of territory with a 
swing lens or a rotational mechanism, and that is fine for them, most folks, 
including most of the purchasers of panoramic stock photography, seem to want 
a 1:3 ratio and don't really care what angle of view was used to capture the 
image. And that is the bottom line as far as I'm concerned.

Craig Sheumaker

http://members.aol.com/cspanoramx