panoramic?

[kwang0429]

what's the best lens to get to get you the panoramic look besides the 15mm fisheye? any suggestions?

I went to look at Jeff Bridges exibit here in San Diego yesterday, he uses a widelux F8 panoramic camera and damn !! I can't believe how awesome it looks......

so I am sitting here wondering with my 20d, I know there is no such thing as panoramic lens! hahah! but what's the best lens that can give you the widest angle?

any infos would be appreciated :)

[Danny Boy]

I've used a 50mm 1.8 to create a panoramic picture and it turned out pretty well. I'm about to head off to Arizona and plan on trying to use my 17-40mm to do the same. I'll try at different lengths and see what I can get.

Dan

[Bruce Watson]

A digital camera, good tripod and software such as Max Lyons Pano Tools Assembler and your every panorama wish can be reality.

Photoshop Elements (maybe CS too?) has a built in sticher as well.

[JZaun]

Use a tripod, take 3-5 picutres of the scean side by side then stitch them together in PS. If you pick some real good spots to overlap in the photo, that will show up well the software will be better able to match them up.

JZaun

[JZaun]

Use a tripod, take 3-5 picutres of the view side by side then stitch them together in PS. If you pick some real good spots to overlap in the photo, that will show up well the software will be better able to match them up.

JZaun

[steven]

You shouldn't use a wide angle lens because of the distortion you get.
I have use both a 50mm and a 100mm for a pano.
The size of lens depends on how many frames (and in the end pixels) you want .

Also I would have to recomend the Max Lyons Pano tools. A high quality program better in many ways to that of the expensive comercial products.

[RichardtheSane]

I've made some great pano images with my 50mm F1.8 and photoshop CS.

[Johnny V]

If you are on a Mac use PTMac to stitch images together. Uses the same engine as Max Lyons' Pano Tools Assembler.

http://www.kekus.com/

[mjordan]

I create my panorama pictures with my 24-70, 70-200 and even 100-400 lenses. I've done it both hand held and on a tripod up to 15 images or so. I use Panorama Factory, which does a lot better job than Canon's Photo Stitch software, although Photo Stitch does a decent job if you get the exposure even across all the images and have a good overlap between images.

To get more vertical image, shoot your images with the camera in the vertical position. You have to take more pictures sometimes, but the taller images give you more in the picture.

Mike

[Chazs]

I've used a 50mm 1.8 to create a panoramic picture and it turned out pretty well. ....
Dan

Same here. But I've also tried using a 28mm on my DRebel, and ran into vignetting. Good thing photoshop raw converter was able to help out.

I'd suggest experimenting with lens settings and stitching together some photos before getting too carried away with panoramas. When the work, they're awsome. I have a 360 degree pan containing the moon, sunset, ocean, and mountains. I just can't print out the 12 x 96 inch print. :(

[megaweb]

read this site

www.panoguide.com

[Headcase650]

something the others have failled to mention.
Make sure you pick your white ballance, wether it sun, shade or clowdy, do not use auto.
Meter your camera in whatever mode your use to them remember the apiture and speed, switch to manual mode and set them there. The last thing you need is different exposures for diferent parts of the finished image.

Good luck and Im sure with some practice you will end up with a great pano.

Adrian

[Volatile]

The last thing you need is different exposures for diferent parts of the finished image.

oh my god the opportunities I lost because of this.,...

[VJSscal]

You can download a trial version of both PTMac and PTGui. I found the PTGui to be more intuitive to use.

[elwood58]

1. Shoot in portrait orientation, which will give you a lot more to work with.
2. Shoot from left to right, as this will line images up properly by default in PP.
3. Shoot in manual mode to insure all exposures are relatively consistent.
4. Have fun with it.

[kal444]

I like this open source GUI for the panotools:
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

They've come a long way and is working very well now.

[nburwell]

I also would not suggest using a WA lens to shoot panoramics. Generally, when I shoot panos, I use either my 24-105 (normally start at 50mm) or 70-200 and shoot in portrait orientation mode for maximum resolution. Like others have stated, make sure you are shooting in fully manual so your exposures are the same throughout each of your photos. Photoshop CS3 does an excellent job at stitching together your photos in PP.

[chauncey]

I use CS3 to stitch and don't limit myself to shooting in one axis. I shoot in a box or circle fashion totally handheld and let Photoshop cover my a$$.

[michaelj]

This post was certainly dug-up :lol:

Anyway, I find that Autopano Pro is by far the best way for me with Panoramas these days. It's not free though, which seems to matter to many people.

Michael.

[K2Chris1983]

I know this is a OLD POST and I am sorry. I just stumbled across this looking for a "canon lens panorama." I see most post talking about stitching photos together which is not a bad idea for a cheap route... The issue with this is, you have no control on Mother Nature or Animals. If you're taking a panoramic view of a mountain using stitching then yes it will work. If you're taking a panoramic picture of movement, waves, clouds, animals, people, HDR and different angels of light.....Good Luck!

Also stitching may take a lot of time in Photoshop to fix angels, light, lines and so on. As a person who spent two weeks in South America doing panoramic pictures at Galapagos Islands and Ecuador. Buy the wide angle lens!

I am not saying stitching is bad but it does have its lows and highs; as well with wide angle lens.