Re: Dicomed Field Pro modified by Michael Collette with a Better

[WILLIAM D SCHWADERER <WDAVID@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Not to put him down, but he does appear on the Adobe and Apple stands
> at every trade show.

When Michael Collette built three Dicomed panoramic cameras, the resulting
images broke Photoshop (number of vertical pixel rows exceeded max. signed
integer value).  His work is so incredibly leading edge, these companies
would naturally gravitate to his work.  For a small (literally) example,
see:

http://www.sjphoto.com/first_pano.html

I believe Michael Collette got to know Apple and Adobe beginning with his
early work and his continuing association with Stephen Johnson, whose work
is widely recognized.  Stephen has one image that someone discovered some
deer in a few years later.  We are talking very large, detailed, digital
panographic images here.

Meanwhile, Michael is usually in the lab building the world's best scanning
back cameras - see:

http://www.betterlight.com/

On a clear day, these cameras capture images of Crater Lake that reveal cars
moving on the opposite shore a few miles away.

As for the few pieces of Michael Collette's personal work I have seen, I
just wish I could afford them.  Michael Collette has a splendid print
hanging in his office of lake Tenya in Yosemite.  If you use a large
magnifying glass, you can see a rock climber with boots on (clearly visible)
climbing a distant ridge.  The climber is more than a mile away.  Each time
I look at it, is  though I have returned to Yosemite.  I could swim in the
gray cumulous clouds...

> doesn''t offer much in the way of content -- which is how folks decide
> they like an image well enough to buy it. Having seen a lot of his
> prints, I wouldn't hang them.

The only personal problem I have with any images taken by anyone with any of
the cameras Michael Collette built is the 25 foot circumference image of the
Grand Canyon taken by and hanging in Stephen Johnson's studio.   I just
can't figure out how to get it and the wooden platform that houses it in my
car.

Here is another great site that has one of the three cameras Michael
Collette built:

http://www.rmphoto.com/gallery_index.html

Check out the San Francisco panorama at the bottom of the list (usually
off-screen).  Be sure to click just to the right and above the South tower.
Moffett Field appears - 40 miles away...

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Best regards,
W. David Schwaderer

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