Re: new digital pan camera

[Les Newcomer <lnphoto@xxxxxxxx>]

I have the 950 and find it very nice, save for some quirky file finding
features. The friend that recomended this camera for me has moved up to
a D1
yeah I know $800 to $4500) The benefit of the D1 is the ability to store
a raw image (not TIff or jpeg) This allows essentially a 3 stop latitude
in your exposure without image degredation like in a compressed jpeg.
Other cameras, from what I hear, are now coming out with raw image
storage that are cheaper than a D1.

Les

> Clayton Tume wrote:
> 
> Any you guys or girls seen/used/bought one of these digital cameras?
> 
> Looking at the specs it's probably out of my price range.
> 
> Just done a job that was perfect for a stitched digital pan. I shot it
> with my Cirkut camera, 500mm lens, 160 degree pan.....the neg was just
> under 5 feet long.
> 
> The shot was a 2 long buildings, owner and equipment, cars trucks vans
> out the front, me across the other side of a busy 4 lane road waiting
> and waiting and waiting for a break in the traffic. Took 5 shots and
> the best I got was 5 blurred cars in it and of course the client wants
> them all out. Now I've got to convert it to a digital file and do some
> clean up.....it would have been sooooo easy to do it with an ordinary
> digital camera, shoot between the traffic and stitch it all together,
> would have saved lots of time.
> 
> Thinking about buying the Nikon 990 just for jobs like this, Bob E. I
> can see why you moved over to digital.
> 
> Clayton
> 
> > New digital panoramic camera
> >
> > British distributor Teamwork is announcing the availability of
> > SpheronVR's new digital panoramic camera, the Panocam 12. The device
> > rotates a full 360°around a vertical axis, producing image files of
> up
> > to 100MB without stitching. The camera delivers high resolution
> images,
> > with fast workflow times and is genuinely portable with a robust
> design,
> > according to Teamwork. It can yield complete panoramas in less than
> 60
> > seconds, is capable of working in low light conditions and able to
> > operate 15 minute scan operations. The Panocam 12, which is designed
> for
> > QuickTime VR work, produces resolutions of 2500 pixels per vertical
> > line, with 16-bit colour per RGB channel. Light sensitivity is
> > equivalent to ISO400 and exposure times range from 1/8000s up to
> 1/2s.
> >
> > (Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP)