irpano wrote:

Hi Klaus, I realise you wer testing the lense and assume that ypou have not processed the image. I was wondering if the neutralhazer filter in APG would help if you had to use this image.
John

Hi John!

I tested the NH filter - it didn´t help here because of too much haze. The filter can´t do miracles . . .
I´ll look for the examples and show them here.

A real NH filter on the lens might have helped better.

best, Klaus

tived wrote:

Ok, here goes - do you fix the focus or do you let the camera auto-focus on each frame?

Hi Henrik!

I did my shot using Josef´s head with xml files. In a first experiment i used different focusing on the foreground - but the foreground was too close for a 300mm: between 3m and 10m.
So i used a fixed focus - i wanted to have an unsharp foreground.

Basically i would make a shot like yours - which i like much! - with changing focus slightly (!) from foreground to the hyperfocal distance. Changing focus too much results in too big scaling-differences for the stitcher and you´d need to do focus-stacking.

I never use AF or another automatic. Fixed WB, fixed exposure - and always RAW.

Josef´s head is extremely sturdy and weights about 4Kilograms. So long exposure is not a problem at all even with 300mm or 600/800mm. Essential is a mirror-lock before each exposure. Josef added a motion-sensor which detects the slightest shaking. It´s switchable of course and we´re adjusting it´s sensitvity at the moment. So we can set a short "dead-time" and the sensor gives a "go" after any kind of shaking is gone. That saves fractions of a second - firing the camera about 700 times for a mosaic or a highres sphere this means a lot of time.

I stopped 2,3minutes for a 700MPx sphere using a 35mm lens on ff. That´s not "speed-mode" but definitely ensures sharp images even using 1/60sec instead of 1/1500sec . . .

best, Klaus

Paul wrote:

Hi Klaus,

some years ago same location http://gigapan.org/gigapans/9677

Best
Jo

Hey Jo!

It´s a nice place, isn´t it. We did a tour for them:
http://www.schloss-drachenburg.de/conte … dgang.html

We will do the shot again when the weather is very clear - maybe with a 400mm.
We´ll shoot the castle in an early morning-light and the rest in the late afternoon
both from the exactly same viewpoint.

best to you, Klaus

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Hello Jo... Now, I really liked your goto a feature thumbs.. How did you do that..

Destiny..

Paul wrote:

Hi Klaus,

some years ago same location http://gigapan.org/gigapans/9677

Best
Jo

Paul wrote:

Klaus,
do you know that the "donkey trail" from castle to Drachenfels is actually closed because of fallen rocks?

Yep - they told us. But on our own risc we´d be allowed to go there for a shoot.

We anyway have to wait for early summer . . .

Afaik you live there in the region? Let´s have a coffee then!

best, Klaus

Paul wrote:

klausesser wrote:

Afaik you live there in the region? Let´s have a coffee then!

By feet not more than 1 hour to that scenic place. Just give me call, when you are around. TNo via PN

ok!

best, Klaus