tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post8518804481423441301..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Panoramic ValleyBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-36570994647853704342011-07-05T11:50:20.751-07:002011-07-05T11:50:20.751-07:00Minerva, you can actually get higher-def panoramas...Minerva, you can actually get higher-def panoramas by doing the multiple snapping yourself, then use digital panorama software to stitch the digital photos together. Thing about this Sony camera is that it makes it *easy*. But the results aren't as good as the old-style way.<br /><br />Steve, yeah, making panoramas is a PITA even if you do it the new-fangled digital way of feeding a bunch of photos into software that automagically stitches them together. That's one reason I got this camera -- it deals with that PITA. Still doesn't take as good of photos as a real DSLR though, the photos I took this weekend are *noisy* when you zoom in on the detail... still, for what it is, it does quite well.<br /><br />-Badtux the Photographing PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-71213894831803033512011-07-05T10:40:30.611-07:002011-07-05T10:40:30.611-07:00Fully 33 years ago I snapped (and snapped and snap...Fully 33 years ago I snapped (and snapped and snapped and...) my only successful panorama, later pasting it together across two album pages with a loose pic to be held in the middle. It was a picture of the tallest mountain range in Styria (a state in Austria) in the distance, together with Styria's largest marijuana plant in the foreground. I regret to report that one of my colleagues, who later proved to be a thief in other ways, whacked away at the plant with a pocketknife, probably harvesting the poor farmer's whole summer supply.<br /><br />This way of taking panoramas seems much easier.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-22878409720972153322011-07-05T08:48:51.913-07:002011-07-05T08:48:51.913-07:00Mmmm... (drools over picture) my camera suddenly s...Mmmm... (drools over picture) my camera suddenly seems lame, lame, lame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-44705084704912940372011-07-05T05:45:58.185-07:002011-07-05T05:45:58.185-07:003D artists dig cameras like this. Panoramic and H...3D artists dig cameras like this. Panoramic and HDR images can greatly enhance 3D work. Panoramas can, of course, create a nice environment, and HDR images can actually act as the lighting in a scene, so your 3D objects are lit in a way that matches the back plate perfectly.Nangleatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01908938252272172718noreply@blogger.com