Re: Lines are not easy draw sometimes

["George S. Pearl, FEPIC,CEP,CQDE" <alps007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just wondering...
   Does this mean that those folks that are making panoramic pictures with
stitching programs are not shooting / making panorama pictures too? The
finished product sure looks the part to me! If it looks like a duck, and it
quacks like a duck, isn't it a duck?
George S. Pearl, QPP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Devendra Bansal" <indphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 1999 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: Lines are not easy draw sometimes


> I beg to differ with you I am sure anybody who can shoot pictures (single
Frames
> covering a min. of 100 deg diagonal ) is a panaromist.Whatever others say
if its
> not min. 100 deg any wide angle lens will be able to be called a
panaromist
> Devendra
>
> CraigClint@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > 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
>