FT-2: the grandfather of russian pano cameras

[TrailsofLife]

This is the grand father of russian pano cameras, hard to find, hard to use but the effect is fantastic!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/avalonu..._and_horizont/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ft-2_and_horizont/pool/

[nightwolf75]

Originally Posted by Max 2.8 This is the grand father of russian pano cameras, hard to find, hard to use but the effect is fantastic! http://www.flickr.com/photos/avalonu..._and_horizont/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/ft-2_and_horizont/pool/

think i've seen it b4 on evilbay... but the selling price was fantastic...

[casey4355]

Originally Posted by Max 2.8 This is the grand father of russian pano cameras, hard to find, hard to use but the effect is fantastic! http://www.flickr.com/photos/avalonu..._and_horizont/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/ft-2_and_horizont/pool/

wats the advantage of pano cam over stitching ?
panos are way to expensive ?

[nightwolf75]

Originally Posted by casey4355 wats the advantage of pano cam over stitching ? panos are way to expensive ?

stitching - u need to make sure that ur exposure is the same across ur pics. u need to make sure ur camera is properly leveled. u need to spend some time to divide out ur frame of reference properly in order to create abt 10-15% overlap per pic so that ur stitching software can work. u need to spend a fair bit of time on photoshop (or watever pano stitching software) to join the images together. u need to spend some $ to buy a decent software to do stitching.

pano cam - click. develop. scan. upload. u are done.

pano cams, overall, are not too expensive if u get from evilbay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/FT-2-Russian-Pan...QQcmdZViewItem