Stiching 4x5? Can I skip 8x10?

[Daniel Stone]

get a 4x10 camera

[adam satushek]

I have done this too. I think its a great alternative especially for traveling, when you might not want to bring an 8x10. I did my scans on an Imacon and printed up to 40x80 inches, which was fine for me because thats as large as my printer will go. But if you can get higher resolution drum scans im sure you would get great results. I have mostly shot the panos with the camera back in the vertical position. Using front shift, or rise is certainly preferable, however, not all my lenses have enough coverage to do this so I have just rotated the whole camera before. It works but takes more fiddling in PS. I have had very mixed results with the photo stitch function in PS, sometimes its great, but usually just gives a good starting point. I tend to prefer about 30-40% overlap, but I tend to overdo things. And yes when you get 3-5 4x5 scans on one canvas, and add layers...you get big files...often 10+ gigs.

Anyhow, thats just my experience, hope there is something helpful in there!

.....a few examples

[drew.saunders]

The Ebony 45S, http://www.ebonycamera.com/cam/main.45S.html, is designed with 60mm l/r rear shift, which allows you to do a 4x10 from two 4x5's just by rear shift, without having to pan the tripod.

[Steve M Hostetter]

I know you can stitch images side by side to make a pano but can you stitch on top and bottom of the image to make the image taller..?

I've tried this on my Mac in cs4 with no luck

[Paul H]

I know you can stitch images side by side to make a pano but can you stitch on top and bottom of the image to make the image taller..?

I've tried this on my Mac in cs4 with no luck

Yes, you certainly can.

I prefer Autopano Pro ($) or Hugin (free) over stitching in PS.

[Greg Lockrey]

I know you can stitch images side by side to make a pano but can you stitch on top and bottom of the image to make the image taller..?

I've tried this on my Mac in cs4 with no luck

Works fine on my CS and Mac 10.4..... I do two high and three wide from vertical camera placements all the time. But Autopano Pro is ten times faster.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Thank you Greg, don't know why it won't work I greased all the buttons

[Greg Lockrey]

Thank you Greg, don't know why it won't work I greased all the buttons

I'll tell you what.... Macs are funny ducks. It's been my experience to run my printers with a Windows environment rather than Mac. I have Parallels set up on mine. On Mac many of the control buttons are greyed out but active on the Windows. Same computer. Also when the Mac crashed several months ago I had a new hard drive replaced and a lot of things I could do before are not present any longer. I used to be able to stitch 16 bit, no longer. Same program from disks were loaded. Not that that is a big deal since the printers only run 8 bit anyway but the feeling I'm getting better color control is questionable but I haven't really seen any difference. So I don't worry too much any longer. But if he Mac crashes again I'm going back to PC. The Mac for the price are over rated to my mind. Hell, my back up is a $200 notebook PC that can run the printing and editing just not as fast.

[Brian Ellis]

Yes, you certainly can.

I prefer Autopano Pro ($) or Hugin (free) over stitching in PS.

I'd be interested in knowing why you prefer those two over Photoshop. I've just become fairly serious about panos and have been happy with PS5 but I'm always interested in improvements, especially when free.

[Steve M Hostetter]

I'll tell you what.... Macs are funny ducks. It's been my experience to run my printers with a Windows environment rather than Mac. I have Parallels set up on mine. On Mac many of the control buttons are greyed out but active on the Windows. Same computer. Also when the Mac crashed several months ago I had a new hard drive replaced and a lot of things I could do before are not present any longer. I used to be able to stitch 16 bit, no longer. Same program from disks were loaded. Not that that is a big deal since the printers only run 8 bit anyway but the feeling I'm getting better color control is questionable but I haven't really seen any difference. So I don't worry too much any longer. But if he Mac crashes again I'm going back to PC. The Mac for the price are over rated to my mind. Hell, my back up is a $200 notebook PC that can run the printing and editing just not as fast.

I know exactly what you mean