Tone down the saturation and this is the result:




It doesn't look red now.

As suggested, just set the camera to normal settings unless you want to distort the colours.

John K

I think it might be because it is underexposed.

How's this?




I've just brightened it a bit and added a gamma boost to the mid tones.

John K

I picked up a mint MG with 50mm f2 and camera manual for £5 at a local boot sale a couple of months ago. Couldn't believe it when I too had to ask the price. I expected more like £25 or thereabouts.

John K

For traditional black and white processing look in some second hand book shops or charity shops for books that were published before the digital era (or even fleabay.) A couple to look out for are the All in One Camera Book and Teach Yourself Photography but there are hundreds of others. They ought to be much cheaper than current volumes.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC0.A0.Xall+i...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Photography-Teach-Yourself-by-Stanley-W-Bowler-/380472...

That isn't to say a visit to the High Street would be a waste of time but most current books are based on digital taking and processing, ie Photoshop.

It is worth remembering that negatives can be scanned and processed using Photoshop or similar. Saves having to wait for the hours of darkness!

John K

Yes on APS-C but those FF lenses should be fine with a FF body. The APS-C lenses would be worse on FF, most just giving an APS-C image with the camera's inbuilt cropping.

John K

Thanks Daniel for the belated reply.

John K

But that isn't the case. Many Pentax users regularly use lenses that do offer FF. The only thing missing is a camera body to match!

John K

That's right. There was no rush to go from 36x24 to 24x18 using the same film stocks because the quality was worse, even though one could get 72+ photos from a roll of film.

John K

You're missing the point. This is about getting a larger image from an APS-C sensor, not a larger sensor. When the camera is on a tripod one is supposed to deactivate the shake function so why not use it to capture a larger image based on the method shown in the videos the OP referred to? It can be done now, only it isn't automated but surely could be.

John K

Not tried it but Microsoft ICE is said to be pretty good, and free!

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/

Another free alternative from Serif:

http://www.serif.com/free-panoramic-photo-stitching-software/

There and many more.

John K