Question: panorama angle

Is there any table of angles you have to use depending on your lens?
For example I would like to take several shots at 16mm and i would like to know how many degrees do I have to turn my camera every time.
Thanks

I think a rule of thumb is to take shots that overlap about 20%. Not sure about a table of angels for different lenses though.

it's not really recommended to use focal lengths less than 50mm for panoramas because of the distortion caused by the wide angles. stay as close to 50mm as you can and shoot vertical.

Duder wrote in post #2112307
it's not really recommended to use focal lengths less than 50mm for panoramas because of the distortion caused by the wide angles. stay as close to 50mm as you can and shoot vertical.

I have 50mm F/1.4
Do you know what is the best F/stop for this type of shot for 50mm F/1.4?
Thanks

strok wrote in post #2113157
I have 50mm F/1.4
Do you know what is the best F/stop for this type of shot for 50mm F/1.4?
Thanks

Well if it's a landscape shot, then use up to f/11 or so.

strok wrote in post #2085399
Is there any table of angles you have to use depending on your lens?
For example I would like to take several shots at 16mm and i would like to know how many degrees do I have to turn my camera every time.
Thanks

Actually the viewing angle does not depend on your lens as such but more on the focal length - film size combination. For rectilinear lenses the angle can be approximated using trigonometry (oh dear mathematics). Here's a little "tutorial" I created.

Viewing angle vs focal length (pdf)

Yes it has some maths but also some tables and graphs that may come in handy.

If you want I can generate a table for the size of the 1D MkII sensor.

Shooting at 16 mm with 19.1 mm of sensor (shooting portrait I presume) would lead to a viewing angle of 61.7 degrees. Overlapping by 20% on each shot it means that you have to turn 49.4 degrees each time if your camera is flush.

Hehe good luck with that. I normally use the viewfinder

Hi Strok;
The attached image is a pretty crappy scan of a handy-dandy table that was published in EOS Magazine this quarter...
Hopefully it will be readable...
It may be of some use...
The "Number of Images" is for a 180 degree pano...
Cheers;
Lee

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strok wrote in post #2113157
I have 50mm F/1.4
Do you know what is the best F/stop for this type of shot for 50mm F/1.4?
Thanks

Hey strok, here's a 4 picture pano (hand held) I took of my city back in the spring using my 50 1.4.

http://i2.photobucket.​com …%20Cityscapes/G​Rpano1.jpg

f5.6 (probably should have gone down to f8 )
ss: 200
ISO: 100

Do you guys generally take pictures vertically or horizontally.

I see Pete recommends vertical, but does everyone else do this as well?

I shot mine horizontally because I was about a mile away from the city. If I were closer, or using a bigger lens, I might have done vertical.

AdamJL wrote in post #2115199
Do you guys generally take pictures vertically or horizontally.

I see Pete recommends vertical, but does everyone else do this as well?

Hi Adam;

It'll depend entirely on the depth of the image you're looking for/at...

Shooting vertically will get you a bigger overall image; but will take much more processing power etc.

Horses for courses;

Cheers;

Lee

Thanks JT and Lee