Andy Levy wrote:
>Or, you could use a camera that has a "panorama" mode which shows you
>the edge of the previsou picture so you can minimize overlap (Canons
>do this).
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True. However, I was trying to give more generic advice that will even
work with film cameras and scanners. I generally try to minimize the
amount of processing I do in the field in the camera as the computer is
more flexible and lets you do the panorama work when you get back home
at your leisure.
>>The other thing that people often miss in doing this is to set the
>>camera's settings to manual and set them once for the whole long shot.
>>Otherwise, the frames with white trucks and those with black trucks will
>>end up with different exposures and not match.
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>This is the biggest one people miss. And the Canon panorama mode
>fixes white balance, exposure, aperture, etc. at whatever the first
>shot used for all the shots in the panorama.
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