Daniel Bridge

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Have a great trip Gwyn!

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on TTFN at 23/04/2009 - 20:39

Daniel Bridge
gartmore wrote:
Kind of reminds me of an LX somehow.
Me too. That prism shape from the front I think.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on New Pentax camera? at 22/04/2009 - 19:07

Daniel Bridge
mikew wrote:
My word Daniel they do ooze quality and I am doubly impressed if they are hand stitched. I have to say I'd have thought that stitching is a job ideally suited to pedantic computers rather then creative humans though
I just prefer being in control of where the joins are. I have to admit the last time I tried a software solution, it was photomerge in Elements 4, so things will have moved on considerably by now. But I still think there'd be mistakes in the join. I'll have to try this Hugin thing.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Snow Panorama - New laptop and CS4 at 21/04/2009 - 00:55

Daniel Bridge
Well, it's definitely not a bug, says Dan the Pedant.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Budding entomologists - comment please!! at 21/04/2009 - 00:48

Daniel Bridge
foxycce wrote:
However I would like it to be compared with something for comparison, against my sigma 28mm(obviously 42mm on cropped sensor)
You still haven't quite grasped focal lengths yet I don't think (reading this thread again).

If you're looking for a comparison between what you have at the moment (a 28-200 zoom), and a 10mm lens, then you need comparison shots at 10mm and 28mm. Forget about 42mm. It's irrelevant.

By the way, you will see a massive difference. If I had the time, and it wasn't 12.45am, I'd take a couple of shots to show you. Maybe tomorrow...

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Wide angle question/favour at 21/04/2009 - 00:45

Daniel Bridge
Amin,

I don't use Adobe for raw processing, but I'm guesing (well, fairly certain ) that this is an exposure warning, showing you areas that are overexposed (probably in any colour, don't think of it necessarily being pure white). As you reduce the exposure, or adjust the colour temperature, you reduce the amount of overexposure, and therefore the red warning decreases.

If you're getting this in most of your images, you need to adjust your exposure when taking the shot, as you may well be losing detail in the lighter areas.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Red areas in RAW images at 20/04/2009 - 09:04

Daniel Bridge
Simon, I think I prefer no. 4, the diagonal lead-in line draws you eye towards the mountain top left.

I think the wooden structure adds a certain stile to the shot.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Do you have a preference? at 19/04/2009 - 23:55

Daniel Bridge
mikew wrote:
Daniel Bridge wrote:

I tend to use the camera in portrait format for my panoramics, and the resolution you get when stitching is phenomenal compared to a cropped shot. One for instance (using my *istD and about 14 shots) was 18,307x2895 pixels.

Dan
Doesn't it also give the software a better chance to achieve seamless stitching as it's working with more pixels on the edge being joined?

Mike
It might do, but being a glutton for punishment, I always do mine by hand.

I usually use my 50mm lens, or sometimes a zoom set at about 35mm, and use the camera in portrait format purely to get the largest vertical field of view. A couple of examples are here, the type I do often don't need much height to them, so the 50mm is fine.

Just checked one I did in Derbyshire last year with my K10D, and it's 19189 x 3716 pixels. That's over 5 feet long at 300ppi.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Snow Panorama - New laptop and CS4 at 19/04/2009 - 23:46

Daniel Bridge
Can't see a green button...

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on New Pentax in May? at 19/04/2009 - 23:14

Daniel Bridge
Tooks wrote:
They cannot delete any images from your camera, or ask you to do so.
In fact they're advised not to. If they genuinely think you're going to use those shots for terrorism, then they're destroying evidence of that.

Dan

Comment by Daniel Bridge posted on Tourists forced to delete photos at 19/04/2009 - 00:29

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