Panorama

[adam satushek]

If it was me....id stitch 8x10 drum scanned negatives together. I've done quite a few of these with 4x5 to make 42 x 80 inch prints, (could print them larger, but that's the max of the printer). If you have a lens with enough coverage and plenty of shift its nice to just shift, but honestly I have just rotated the whole camera with great results it just takes more work in photoshop. I like to use the photo stitch function in photoshop set to stitch and blend (without warping) as a starting point, then touch up the layer masks and warp myself if necessary. Much easier to do this with natural forms where you can fudge some information, but I have done it with buildings and other man made structures as well.

Good luck!

[Leszek Vogt]

Part of this trick is that the processing has to be quite accurate (all the film files have to be processed as one batch) to stitch together really well. The film should be from the same batch, as well. The print will cost lots of cash, but you probably already know that. If it's a scenery, you can use somewhat of a telephoto in vertical orientation....allowing 15-20% for stitching. I used PS 8 and it worked really well for me (in digital), though Pgui (sp) software would likely be better. Unless film is a must in this case, as an alternative you could rent a MF digital camera set the WB properly...all in manual...on a pano head....and you could totally bypass the film processing and drum scanning. It's not hard, I did it handheld....though I wouldn't suggest doing that with LF camera. Good luck.

Les

[adam satushek]

If you are bringing it into photoshop, you can adjust each layer (negative) individually to get them to match perfectly even if your development or scans are different.

Or you could just get one of theses....http://www.photokina-show.com/0382/s...digitalcamera/

[Drew Bedo]

This has been done before by taking multiple overlapping shots, then scanning and stiching to achieve a high quality panorama.

[timparkin]

I've made a few big pictures using a variety of techniques.

Firstly I've made side by side 4x5's using rear shift on my Ebony 45SU (110SSXL)



and I've also made rotational panoramas - the following is three 4x5's stitched in PTGUI - layers exported to photoshop and then tweaked the joins (110SSXL)



detail here



And here's an 8x10 using a 4x10 darkslide (110SSXL - I like that lens!)



and I also made a side by side 8x10 which I don't have access to at the minute.

With my experience, I would say that it really depends on your view - If you have foreground then I would recommend doing rear shift or get it in one on 8x10. Otherwise rotational stitching works fine, especially if you need to get a large angular view.

To be honest though - 6x17 does a bloody good job as people have said, especially if you get it scanned with a good drum scanner (especially if you can get an 8000dpi scan from a proper hires scanner with 3 micron aperture) - be a damn site easier too.. (Of course you would need to stich these together too.. )

However, it won't beat 8 side by side 4x5s!

Tim