My first ever panoramic image using the QuickTake 150. That $20 Kaidan Tripod head paid off and I got in just the right amount of light today to get a really great capture of 15 vertical images stitched together. Felt the images turned out so well that I didn't want to post edit them in PhotoShop in any way from how they were originally captured by the 150. WYSIWYG!
The result is a 2600x625 panoramic image from a 1995 camera that I would have never imagined possible. Only recently did I even learn you could take panoramas using these cameras as it seemed like a crazy idea to consider. Slowly tracked down everything I needed to finally do it and made a day of it today. The biggest hurdle was that my PowerBook 1400 battery is no longer charging or holding a charge despite having just purchased it re-celled sadly. Convenient to happen just before going out to shoot a panoramic but thankfully I had a few 150s to take multiple sets of images and bring back to get a single decent shot.
Out of 3, this one (without a wide angle lens) turned out the best - the sun was shining insanely bright which probably explains the better than expected result:
Sadly the QuickTake 200 images didn't turn out so well, to the point where I think there may actually be something wrong with the sensor. Might try to track down another 200 to take some pictures with and compare to the unit I have to see if what I do have is out of spec or if they're just not as good as the previous models despite having a nice LCD display.
Here's the Panoramic QuickTake rig of the Future! ;-)
The result is a 2600x625 panoramic image from a 1995 camera that I would have never imagined possible. Only recently did I even learn you could take panoramas using these cameras as it seemed like a crazy idea to consider. Slowly tracked down everything I needed to finally do it and made a day of it today. The biggest hurdle was that my PowerBook 1400 battery is no longer charging or holding a charge despite having just purchased it re-celled sadly. Convenient to happen just before going out to shoot a panoramic but thankfully I had a few 150s to take multiple sets of images and bring back to get a single decent shot.
Out of 3, this one (without a wide angle lens) turned out the best - the sun was shining insanely bright which probably explains the better than expected result:
Sadly the QuickTake 200 images didn't turn out so well, to the point where I think there may actually be something wrong with the sensor. Might try to track down another 200 to take some pictures with and compare to the unit I have to see if what I do have is out of spec or if they're just not as good as the previous models despite having a nice LCD display.
Here's the Panoramic QuickTake rig of the Future! ;-)
