Wide non Fisheye

[KevinA]

What is the widest lens available on any platform, I will include shift and stitch. I keep getting impossible jobs of big buildings in narrow streets, so I would be interested to know what is the widest you can get. Pan and stitch does not work for me, it's just like a Fisheye. I do have Sigma's 12 - 24mm on a FF Canon is there wider to be had?

Kevin.

[Dick Roadnight]

What is the widest lens available on any platform, I will include shift and stitch. I keep getting impossible jobs of big buildings in narrow streets, so I would be interested to know what is the widest you can get. Pan and stitch does not work for me, it's just like a Fisheye. I do have Sigma's 12 - 24mm on a FF Canon is there wider to be had?

Kevin.

Use a 10m, 20m or whatever tripod...
use my virtual view point technique... photograph each floor from a different height with a different shift, so the stitched image looks as if was taken from 2, 4 ... or whatever times as far away as the actual view point, with correct perspective and parallax.

¿Shall I draw you a diagram?

...Our parliamentary candidate is here for tea this afternoon, so I had better tear myself away.

[CBarrett]

Use a 10m, 20m or whatever tripod...
use my virtual view point technique... photograph each floor from a different height with a different shift, so the stitched image looks as if was taken from 2, 4 ... or whatever times as far away as the actual view point, with correct perspective and parallax.

¿Shall I draw you a diagram?

I'd rather like to see that diagram.

: )

[fredjeang]

I'd rather like to see that diagram.

: )

So do I.

[KevinA]

Use a 10m, 20m or whatever tripod...
use my virtual view point technique... photograph each floor from a different height with a different shift, so the stitched image looks as if was taken from 2, 4 ... or whatever times as far away as the actual view point, with correct perspective and parallax.

¿Shall I draw you a diagram?

...Our parliamentary candidate is here for tea this afternoon, so I had better tear myself away.

Er it's a wind up right?

Kevin.

[Doug Peterson]

The HartBlei Cam (disclosure: we are dealers) allow the use of a 17mm on a P65+ (full frame 645) with a mm or two of movement. I've not personally used this combo (though I have used the HartBlei cam) and the LL review says the corners are not great (not a shock given it's utterly extreme wideness)

17mm on a P65+ is the same as an 11mm lens on a FF dSLR with a small bit of room for movements (especially if your subject is not filling the frame in the horizontal direction).

That's the widest rectilinear lens I know of (probably isn't the widest in existence so please jump in if you know of wider).

Doug Peterson
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[Doug Peterson]

Another option would be a fisheye lens with De-Fishing software.

The quality is not great as the data at the edge is extremely stretched.

Just brainstorming for you ways to shoot REALLY wide.

[CBarrett]

That makes me wonder if you could adapt a Canon lens to the view camera.  I know that Sinar had a Nikon adapter board, but you needed their shutter.  Could a Canon 17 be mounted in, say, a Copal 3 shutter?  That on the P65+ would just be wicked!

Fun...

[Jack Flesher]

Pan and stitch does not work for me, it's just like a Fisheye.

Then you are not choosing the proper projection in the stitching software...

[KevinA]

Another option would be a fisheye lens with De-Fishing software.

The quality is not great as the data at the edge is extremely stretched.

Just brainstorming for you ways to shoot REALLY wide.

Does not the de fish software crop the image as well?

Kevin.

[Doug Peterson]

That makes me wonder if you could adapt a Canon lens to the view camera.  I know that Sinar had a Nikon adapter board, but you needed their shutter.  Could a Canon 17 be mounted in, say, a Copal 3 shutter?  That on the P65+ would just be wicked!

Fun...

...that's exactly what the Hartblei cam is (though with a focal plane shutter not a copal shutter)

[KevinA]

Then you are not choosing the proper projection in the stitching software...

What do you suggest? I'm shooting at 12mm often struggling to get the top of the building in portrait with the camera level, a shot left and right stitched together I can't see how it could look anything but Fisheye, please enlighten me. I have Realviz cut down version.

Kevin.

[Luis Argerich]

I think the widest rectilinear lens is the TSE 17mm on a FF camera. Shifting in both directions gives you more FOV than the Sigma 12mm.

[CBarrett]

...that's exactly what the Hartblei cam is (though with a focal plane shutter not a copal shutter)

Yeah, but a Copal shutter would let me put it on my Arca!

; )

Doug, Man... when are we gonna get to build me a new tower?  CS5 is definitely quicker with the extra RAM it gets.  Using the patch tool on 400 mb files is instant!

Lovin Me some new P'Shop,

CB

[Dick Roadnight]

Use my virtual view point technique... photograph each floor from a different height with a different shift, so the stitched image looks as if was taken from 2, 4 ... or whatever times as far away as the actual view point, with correct perspective and parallax.

I'd rather like to see that diagram.

: )

See new topic [a href=\'index.php?showtopic=43338\']Virtual Viewpoint Technique[/a]

[Jack Flesher]

What do you suggest? I'm shooting at 12mm often struggling to get the top of the building in portrait with the camera level, a shot left and right stitched together I can't see how it could look anything but Fisheye, please enlighten me. I have Realviz cut down version.

Kevin.

I don't know Realviz.  I use Autopano, and there you simply choose a planar projection and input the focal length of your lens as 1000mm regardless of what you used and the projection will be perfectly rectilinear.

If you post three 800 pixel jpegs of overlapping captures I can show you.  Note that with any rectilinearizations, you will get "pinched" sides and centers to correct the native barrel distortion, but the final effect is no different than a capture with a hyper-wide rectilinear lens -- you just need to shoot loose to make sure you have enough image for the crop after the pinch.  This is why most folks will shoot with their cameras in portrait orientation.

[ErikKaffehr]

Hi,

As far as I know it's about 14 mm on full frame you can get. The Sigma 12-24 doesn't really cover FF (24x36) IMHO, corners get pretty bad.

You can do panos, but trying to get anything near to 180 degrees rectilinear is simply impossible. Mathematically, it would be called a singularity.

Assume that you stand in front of two railways rails. You turn left and they will converge, you turn right and they will converge. But, rectangular perspective says that they are parallel! So you would need to enlarge the left and right side of the image infinitely to be able to produce a rectilinear image with a 180 degree horizontal view angle. It cannot be done. Could it be done, it would look very artificial.

Best regards
Erik

What is the widest lens available on any platform, I will include shift and stitch. I keep getting impossible jobs of big buildings in narrow streets, so I would be interested to know what is the widest you can get. Pan and stitch does not work for me, it's just like a Fisheye. I do have Sigma's 12 - 24mm on a FF Canon is there wider to be had?

Kevin.

[JoeKitchen]

Use my virtual view point technique... photograph each floor from a different height with a different shift, so the stitched image looks as if was taken from 2, 4 ... or whatever times as far away as the actual view point, with correct perspective and parallax.

See new topic [a href=\'index.php?showtopic=43338\']Virtual Viewpoint Technique[/a]

That is a lot of math and angles to figure out to make it work right correctly.  Looks like you need to know how far away the building is from where you are shooting and the distance between floors of the building you are shooting from, not to mention the vanishing point created behind the lens based off of you perspective (the starting point of your angle) and a good deal of knowledge of trig and maybe calculus.    

My degrees are in math and I dont think I would want to put that much effort into shooting.  But thanks, maybe one day I will have a job where I absolutely need that.

[Doug Peterson]

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[haefnerphoto]

Attached are examples of the Canon 17mm t/s and a stitched image with the shift left and right added.  It's pretty wide!  Also, a few months ago there was mention of the Canon 24 t/s  and the Hartblei camera.  Apparently the 24 has a much greater image circle than the 17 and can be shifted significantly, while keeping the corners sharp.  Jim

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