That duck made my day! ;-)
Thanks!

At 10:32 AM 9/2/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>Well, when I went up to photograph the giant duck I didn't realize
>how close he was to the edge. I thought I would do a standard pano
>with my tripod etc. but for some reason I did drag along my poles
>and boy I am glad I did. When I got there I couldn't see his glasses
>over the beak so the the tripod idea was out. I put together my
>poles which gives me about 12' tall on my camera which got my
>viewpoint up high enough to see the face. It was kinda' windy so the
>duck was shaking around and I am basically handholding and rotating
>the pole hoping to keep it steady enough to avoid a nightmare
>stitch. I did shoot some brackets but I was able to pull this
>together from just 1 series and made 2 exposures from the original
>RAW files. I did have to shoot 6 around and then bring down my pole
>and move the camera to the up position and then raise the pole back
>up and hoped to get it close enough to the original position for the
>up shot. Anyway it wasn't too bad just s ome minor retouching with
>the skew tool to get some lines back together. I also had to
>reconstruct the area where I was standing and remove my shadow from the duck.
><http://360around.com>http://360around.com
>
>ronrack


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On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:43:22 +0900, Trausti Hraunfjord
<trausti.hraunfjord@...> wrote:

> There surely must be some good ... well... let's just call them
> "hackers" or
> "crackers" out there, that have been able to access the built-in software
> (firmware) and change the default settings?
>
> In the case of Olympus, the range is only -1 0 +1 ... and that is of
> course
> far from being enough for anything serious.

I spent the afternoon with a photographer friend who has the new Olympus
"Pen" micro 4/3 camera, with the 17mm "prime" and the set zoom. His
comment was that he loved the weight, functions and general "feel" of
the camera but found it a big step back in terms of dynamic range. He
and I compared shots (with my D300) and the Olympus lost out every time.

That made me sad, as dymnamic range is so important for panoramas.

Roger W

--
Work: www.adex-japan.com

Yes exactly. WTF do i want 9 bracketed exposures 0.3 EV apart? That's so stupid.



Jeffrey Martin
www.360cities.net - The World in Virtual Reality
tel. +420 608 076 502 / skype jeffrey.s.martin



   Re: Canon EOS 7D pics and specs leak out
Posted by: "Matthew Rogers" matthew@...   threesixtyprecision
Tue Sep 1, 2009 10:26 am (PDT)


You might want to look at Nikon then. The D700 can bracket 9 exposures
from 0.3 to 1.0 ev intervals. You can also slide the bracket range
using the ev compensation setting. It would be good if you could
expand it to 2ev I guess but apart from that limitation it works well.

Matt

Shooting panos in the circus is a nightmare - the light is permanently changing,
the objects are moving fast, the DR is huge... But it provides a lot of
interesting situations :)

Here it is: http://pano.1drey.com/various/03circus.html

Look at the AE Bracketing spec...

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/PanasonicGF1/page4.asp

Jeffrey Martin | 360Cities.net wrote:
> Yes exactly. WTF do i want 9 bracketed exposures 0.3 EV apart? That's so
stupid.
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Martin
> www.360cities.net - The World in Virtual Reality
> tel. +420 608 076 502 / skype jeffrey.s.martin
>
>
>
>   Re: Canon EOS 7D pics and specs leak out
> Posted by: "Matthew Rogers" matthew@...   threesixtyprecision
> Tue Sep 1, 2009 10:26 am (PDT)
>
>
> You might want to look at Nikon then. The D700 can bracket 9 exposures
> from 0.3 to 1.0 ev intervals. You can also slide the bracket range
> using the ev compensation setting. It would be good if you could
> expand it to 2ev I guess but apart from that limitation it works well.
>
> Matt
>
>

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/canon-introduces-first-hybrid-image-stabiliza\
tion-lens-ef-100mm/

a thousand bucks for 4 stops improvement (or so they say)


Jeffrey Martin
www.360cities.net - The World in Virtual Reality
tel. +420 608 076 502 / skype jeffrey.s.martin

1drey wrote:
>
> Shooting panos in the circus is a nightmare - the light is permanently
> changing, the objects are moving fast, the DR is huge... But it provides a
> lot of interesting situations :)
>

Still, nicely done and a great spot to shoot from showing a reflection of
the arena and the editing room!

I had a similar location with lots of constantly moving lights and people
http://www.c360.nl/fzbrancheborrel/index.html here . Loved the outcome
though and so did the client!
--
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yes.
CHDK for Canon compacts is an example. But nobody did it into other cameras.
Minolta and Kodak did it with an open, freely programmable OS called
digitaOS.
http://lisas.de/digita/

HACKERS is the right term. It has all the political, freedom and tough
significance involved in it.
CRACKERS are thieves, cryminals etc.
Of course, governments and strong powers are far more afraid from HACKERS.

2009/9/2 Roger D. Williams <roger@...>

>
>
> On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:43:22 +0900, Trausti Hraunfjord
> <trausti.hraunfjord@... <trausti.hraunfjord%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > There surely must be some good ... well... let's just call them
> > "hackers" or
> > "crackers" out there, that have been able to access the built-in software
> > (firmware) and change the default settings?
> >
> > In the case of Olympus, the range is only -1 0 +1 ... and that is of
> > course
> > far from being enough for anything serious.
>
> I spent the afternoon with a photographer friend who has the new Olympus
> "Pen" micro 4/3 camera, with the 17mm "prime" and the set zoom. His
> comment was that he loved the weight, functions and general "feel" of
> the camera but found it a big step back in terms of dynamic range. He
> and I compared shots (with my D300) and the Olympus lost out every time.
>
> That made me sad, as dymnamic range is so important for panoramas.
>
> Roger W
>
> --
> Work: www.adex-japan.com
>
>



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Bracketeer 3.3 will crash if you start fiddling with the sliders.  The problem
is that Enfuse randomly has problems writing out TIFF files on 10.6.  Lots of
errors get written to the console, and the resulting TIFF file is corrupt.  So
corrupt that it'll actually cause even Photoshop to crash if you try to load it.

The temporary solution was to release Bracketeer 3.3.1 last night which saves
out the files as JPEG since Enfuse seems to be able to do that okay on 10.6.  It
is a 100% quality JPEG, so there shouldn't be any noticeable artifacting, but
I'm hoping I can find a version of Enfuse which can write out TIFF files on Snow
Leopard.

-Brian

--- In PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com, Willy Kaemena <panokaemena@...> wrote:
>
> Brian
> I just ran a test of your Bracketeer on 10.6  without any problem.
>

Sometime around 2/9/09 (at 11:49 +0000) ilyin1drey said:

>Shooting panos in the circus is a nightmare - the light is
>permanently changing, the objects are moving fast, the DR is huge...
>But it provides a lot of interesting situations :)

Absolutely. Very good work there, and interesting viewing spot. I
initially thought the rear view wouldn't be interesting, but with the
(lighting?) control room right there I was so wrong.

I really enjoy shooting in demanding conditions where people and
lighting shift madly. I find it keeps me on my toes and sharpens my
skills. Speaking of demanding conditions, I have some shots from
Shambala festival (this past weekend) to put together...

k

Sometime around 2/9/09 (at 12:42 +0000) pangeasoft said:

>It is a 100% quality JPEG, so there shouldn't be any noticeable artifacting

Good luck Brian. I prefer to stick to a 16-bit TIFF workflow wherever
possible, so I might even hold back on upgrading to 10.6 (Gasps from
the crowd... I'm normally the first to dive in) until there's a fix.

k

Dont fiddle with the  controls in Bracketeer and you will get  a 16bit
tiff output without  any problem under 10.6, well  at least  I could
achieve that.

Willy


On Sep 2, 2009, at 14:59, Keith Martin wrote:

> Sometime around 2/9/09 (at 12:42 +0000) pangeasoft said:
>
> >It is a 100% quality JPEG, so there shouldn't be any noticeable
> artifacting
>
> Good luck Brian. I prefer to stick to a 16-bit TIFF workflow wherever
> possible, so I might even hold back on upgrading to 10.6 (Gasps from
> the crowd... I'm normally the first to dive in) until there's a fix.
>
> k
>












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Buy the 100mm 2.8 Zeiss and a good tripod

2009/9/2 Jeffrey Martin | 360Cities.net <360cities@...>

>
>
>
>
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/canon-introduces-first-hybrid-image-stabiliza\
tion-lens-ef-100mm/
>
> a thousand bucks for 4 stops improvement (or so they say)
>
> Jeffrey Martin
> www.360cities.net - The World in Virtual Reality
> tel. +420 608 076 502 / skype jeffrey.s.martin
>
>



--
Luca Vascon.

www.canalview.it
www.officinepanottiche.com


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Great pano, I have a good laugh at it.

/Squeak!  ;)

E


* panobanano wrote, On 01/09/2009 11:32 PM:
>
>
>  Well, when I went up to photograph the giant duck I didn't realize
>  how close he was to the edge. I thought I would do a standard pano
>  with my tripod etc. but for some reason I did drag along my poles and
>  boy I am glad I did. When I got there I couldn't see his glasses over
>  the beak so the the tripod idea was out. I put together my poles
>  which gives me about 12' tall on my camera which got my viewpoint up
>  high enough to see the face. It was kinda' windy so the duck was
>  shaking around and I am basically handholding and rotating the pole
>  hoping to keep it steady enough to avoid a nightmare stitch. I did
>  shoot some brackets but I was able to pull this together from just 1
>  series and made 2 exposures from the original RAW files. I did have
>  to shoot 6 around and then bring down my pole and move the camera to
>  the up position and then raise the pole back up and hoped to get it
>  close enough to the original position for the up shot. Anyway it
>  wasn't too bad just some minor retouching with the skew tool to get
>  some lines back together. I also had to reconstruct the area where I
>  was standing and remove my shadow from the duck. http://360around.com
>  <http://360around.com>
>
>  ronrack

LOL,

There's no replacement for IS when you need it, which would be OFF tripod.
I'm not much of a fan of using IS to get below 1/60,  since usually blur
starts coming from the subject not the lens, but above 1/60 I believe IS
will improve your shots slightly.

This seems like a good bug hunting lens.

And why Zeiss, isn't it 50% more expensive?





Sacha Griffin

Southern Digital Solutions LLC

http://www.southern-digital.com

http://www.seeit360.net

GMAIL IM: sachagriffin007@...

404-551-4275







From: PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com [mailto:PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of luca vascon
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:48 AM
To: PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] OT -
canon-introduces-first-hybrid-image-stabilization-lens-ef-100mm





Buy the 100mm 2.8 Zeiss and a good tripod

2009/9/2 Jeffrey Martin | 360Cities.net <360cities@...
<mailto:360cities%40gmail.com> >

>
>
>
>
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/canon-introduces-first-hybrid-image-stabi
lization-lens-ef-100mm/
>
> a thousand bucks for 4 stops improvement (or so they say)
>
> Jeffrey Martin
> www.360cities.net - The World in Virtual Reality
> tel. +420 608 076 502 / skype jeffrey.s.martin
>
>

--
Luca Vascon.

www.canalview.it
www.officinepanottiche.com

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The Sony 100mm f/2.8 macro (ExMinolta) is also excellent - but a lot cheaper.
http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/47-sony-alpha-aps-c/378-sony_100_28

And Sony states like Canon, that the in-body optical stabilisation system of
the Alpha 850 delivers up to 4 steps of anti-shake correction with all
compatible lenses, opening up even greater creative possibilities when
shooting handheld. This system works with EVERY lens....




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Never tried a zeiss lens uh?!
Canon 100 macro old version is nothing special.
105 micro Nikkor 2.8D was a killer
100 Zeiss Makro Planar is visibly far better.

Never got an IS lens, nor ever used AF features after the tragic first
experience with a Nikon F90X. Then thrown off and upgrafed to F3.
Small tries with digital Canons always led to big problems.
Very low trustin in anything automatic concerning a photo camera, as things
that can be "forgotten on or off" :-)))))
As the tripod is a Necessory. If you are in reproduction or architecture you
are with a tripod. Period.
If you use macro for insects or wildlife you are with flash AND tripod.
If I'm without tripod I make shure to have enough wine in my blood not to
shake. And I do not mind to have small shakings in the final image!
:-D
I'd like however to have central shutters in the camera, and no mirrors...




2009/9/2 Sacha Griffin <sachagriffin@...>

>
>
> LOL,
>
> There's no replacement for IS when you need it, which would be OFF tripod.
> I'm not much of a fan of using IS to get below 1/60, since usually blur
> starts coming from the subject not the lens, but above 1/60 I believe IS
> will improve your shots slightly.
>
> This seems like a good bug hunting lens.
>
> And why Zeiss, isn't it 50% more expensive?
>
> Sacha Griffin
>
> Southern Digital Solutions LLC
>
> http://www.southern-digital.com
>
> http://www.seeit360.net
>
> GMAIL IM: sachagriffin007@... <sachagriffin007%40gmail.com>
>
> 404-551-4275
>
> From: PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com <PanoToolsNG%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com <PanoToolsNG%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of luca vascon
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:48 AM
> To: PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com <PanoToolsNG%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] OT -
>
> canon-introduces-first-hybrid-image-stabilization-lens-ef-100mm
>
> Buy the 100mm 2.8 Zeiss and a good tripod
>
> 2009/9/2 Jeffrey Martin | 360Cities.net
<360cities@...<360cities%40gmail.com>
> <mailto:360cities%40gmail.com <360cities%2540gmail.com>> >
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/canon-introduces-first-hybrid-image-stabi
> lization-lens-ef-100mm/
> >
> > a thousand bucks for 4 stops improvement (or so they say)
> >
> > Jeffrey Martin
> > www.360cities.net - The World in Virtual Reality
> > tel. +420 608 076 502 / skype jeffrey.s.martin
> >
> >
>
> --
> Luca Vascon.
>
> www.canalview.it
> www.officinepanottiche.com
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>



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oooooooh, yessss.
And Minolta 100 macro was just a bit better than Nikkor, in some situations.
Minolta had some very good lenses. 70-200f4, the white one, 50mm 1.4 the
20mm ecc.

2009/9/2 Thomas Krueger <krueger@...>

>
>
>
> The Sony 100mm f/2.8 macro (ExMinolta) is also excellent - but a lot
> cheaper.
> http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/47-sony-alpha-aps-c/378-sony_100_28
>
> And Sony states like Canon, that the in-body optical stabilisation system
> of
> the Alpha 850 delivers up to 4 steps of anti-shake correction with all
> compatible lenses, opening up even greater creative possibilities when
> shooting handheld. This system works with EVERY lens....
>
> -----
> Greetings, Thomas - http://www.thomaskrueger.eu thomaskrueger.eu
> --
> View this message in context:
>
http://www.nabble.com/OT---canon-introduces-first-hybrid-image-stabilization-len\
s-ef-100mm-tp25256516p25260647.html
> Sent from the PanoToolsNG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
>



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On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:42:05 -0000, "pangeasoft" <brian@...>
wrote:
> Bracketeer 3.3 will crash if you start fiddling with the sliders.  The
> problem is that Enfuse randomly has problems writing out TIFF files on
> 10.6.  Lots of errors get written to the console, and the resulting TIFF
> file is corrupt.  So corrupt that it'll actually cause even Photoshop to
> crash if you try to load it.
>
> The temporary solution was to release Bracketeer 3.3.1 last night which
> saves out the files as JPEG since Enfuse seems to be able to do that okay
> on 10.6.  It is a 100% quality JPEG, so there shouldn't be any noticeable
> artifacting, but I'm hoping I can find a version of Enfuse which can
write
> out TIFF files on Snow Leopard.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all you have built over the years and have
no animus towards you for building Bracketeer (quite the opposite, have
recommended it several times), but isn't this a *perfect* case of where a
commercial vendor leveraging open source might want to give back by helping
fix enfuse (or at least make a good build) for the rest of us, rather than
waiting for someone else to do it?

-Roger

On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Trausti Hraunfjord wrote:
> In the case of Olympus, the range is only -1 0 +1 ... and that is of
> course
> far from being enough for anything serious
>

I don't know which camera you are referring to, but my Olympus E-3 can
bracket five shots, +2 to -2 EV. In burst mode it takes just over a
second to make the five exposures. I usually throw out the +1 and -1
shots.

On 9/2/2009 4:49 AM, ilyin1drey's hamster got loose on the keyboard and
typed ...:
> Shooting panos in the circus is a nightmare - the light is permanently
> changing, the objects are moving fast, the DR is huge... But it
> provides a lot of interesting situations :)

Quit clowning around, Andrey!      =8^)

Nice job in capturing the moment.  Your WWP "Performing Arts" entry will
be great.

> Here it is: http://pano.1drey.com/various/03circus.html




Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large

xRez is having a gigapixel print show opening in Norway. sept 9, 6:30-7:30. If
anyone on the list is in Norway and wants to stop by and say hello the opening
reception will be sept 9, 6:30-7:30.
http://www.xrez.com/Gigapixel_Print_Show_Norway.jpg
http://www.digistorytelling.com/?page_id=50

We will be giving a talk at Ars Electronica on the Yosemite Extreme Panorama
Project on sept 4th as well
http://www.aec.at/humannature/deep-space/deep-space#more-914

-Greg Downing
mobile: 415-613-1649
twitter: @gregdowning
http://www.xrez.com/

Thanks to Google books I located some old sources on how to make
panoramic photography.

Popular Mechanics June 1968: "How to Make Big Panoramas from Little
Pictures"
<http://books.google.com/books?id=JNQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=false>
http://tinyurl.com/nqvazf*

*Popular Mechanics Aug 1923: "Huge Photo of Wild Life Ninety-Six feet long"
<http://books.google.com/books?id=GtoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA238&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=true>
http://tinyurl.com/kjelqn

Popular Mechanics March 1924: "How to Photograph Panorama with Ordinary
Camera"
<http://books.google.com/books?id=5igDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_brr=1\
#v=onepage&q=&f=true>
http://tinyurl.com/kuudeg

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jwatters@...
http://photocreations.ca

On 9/2/2009 10:42 AM, Jim Watters's hamster got loose on the keyboard
and typed ...:
> Thanks to Google books I located some old sources on how to make
> panoramic photography.
>
> Popular Mechanics June 1968: "How to Make Big Panoramas from Little
> Pictures"
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=JNQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=false>
> http://tinyurl.com/nqvazf*
>
> *Popular Mechanics Aug 1923: "Huge Photo of Wild Life Ninety-Six feet
> long"
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=GtoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA238&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=true>
> http://tinyurl.com/kjelqn
>
> Popular Mechanics March 1924: "How to Photograph Panorama with Ordinary
> Camera"
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=5igDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_brr=1\
#v=onepage&q=&f=true>
> http://tinyurl.com/kuudeg

These are great, Jim.  Thanks.



Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large

Here's a simple little gadget I wish was available in the shops.
That sure would have saved me quite some time filing and drilling in the shed
last weekend ;)

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl/3881308425/>

Cheers!

Erik Leeman

(www.erikleeman.com   www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl)

Thanks Jim for this insight, this is precious information!

I bet someone stupid enough will also trying to patent that process ;-)

Os melhores cumprimentos,
Best regards,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Carlos Chegado

Olho de Peixe Lda




Jim Watters escreveu:
>
>
> Thanks to Google books I located some old sources on how to make
> panoramic photography.
>
> Popular Mechanics June 1968: "How to Make Big Panoramas from Little
> Pictures"
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=JNQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=false
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=JNQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=false>>
> http://tinyurl.com/nqvazf* <http://tinyurl.com/nqvazf*>
>
> *Popular Mechanics Aug 1923: "Huge Photo of Wild Life Ninety-Six feet
> long"
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=GtoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA238&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=true
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=GtoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA238&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q\
=&f=true>>
> http://tinyurl.com/kjelqn <http://tinyurl.com/kjelqn>
>
> Popular Mechanics March 1924: "How to Photograph Panorama with Ordinary
> Camera"
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=5igDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_brr=1\
#v=onepage&q=&f=true
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=5igDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_brr=1\
#v=onepage&q=&f=true>>
> http://tinyurl.com/kuudeg <http://tinyurl.com/kuudeg>
>
> --
> Jim Watters
>
> jwatters@... <mailto:jwatters%40photocreations.ca>
> http://photocreations.ca <http://photocreations.ca>
>
>


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A patent!, Dang! I knew I forgot something!

:D

Cheers!

Erik Leeman


--- In PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com, "erik_leeman" wrote:
>
> Here's a simple little gadget I wish was available in the shops.
> That sure would have saved me quite some time filing and drilling
> in the shed last weekend ;)
>
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl/3881308425/>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Erik Leeman
>
> (www.erikleeman.com   www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl)

--- In PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com, Don Bain <dbain@...> wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Trausti Hraunfjord wrote:
> > In the case of Olympus, the range is only -1 0 +1 ... and that is of
> > course
> > far from being enough for anything serious
> >
>
> I don't know which camera you are referring to, but my Olympus E-3 can
> bracket five shots, +2 to -2 EV. In burst mode it takes just over a
> second to make the five exposures. I usually throw out the +1 and -1
> shots.

The talk was about the new Olympus Pen and it only has max 3 exposures at 1EV
difference which is just as good as no bracketing at all.

Nikon D300, D700 and D3 all have • 2 to 9 frames
• 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 or 1 EV steps

Even if that covers your need it is  a large waste of space and especially waste
of time for taking them.
What you need for best HDR is 4-5 exposures with 1,5 - 2 EV  steps

When you have to take 9 exposures to cover it and you need a mirror up  and
several seconds exposure you really do not want to waste the time with more than
needed exposures.

All Canons has only 3 at +-2EV except the Pro EOS-1d markII

But what all the semi professional cameras do not have the new Panasonic GF1
has.
It has • 3, 5 or 7 frames • 1/3 to 2.0 EV steps Which is the best I seen in any
camera.

Hans

--- In PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com, "erik_leeman" <erik.leeman@...> wrote:
>
> Here's a simple little gadget I wish was available in the shops.
> That sure would have saved me quite some time filing and drilling in the shed
last weekend ;)
>
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl/3881308425/>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Erik Leeman
>
> (www.erikleeman.com   www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl)
>
I have been searching all the web to find a laser to implement like this.
What is it, Just a dummy?

Hans

On 9/2/2009 11:21 AM, erik_leeman's hamster got loose on the keyboard
and typed ...:
> A patent!, Dang! I knew I forgot something!

Too late, I filed the paperwork an hour ago.      =8^)

> :D
>
> Cheers!
>
> Erik Leeman
>
>
> --- In PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com, "erik_leeman" wrote:
>> Here's a simple little gadget I wish was available in the shops.
>> That sure would have saved me quite some time filing and drilling
>> in the shed last weekend ;)
>>
>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl/3881308425/>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Erik Leeman
>>
>> (www.erikleeman.com www.flickr.com/photos/erik-nl)




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