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Seamless
wide format panorama photography with a large format Better
Light digital camera on
turntable tripod.
Better
Light produces the only large-format seamless panorama taken
directly with a digital scanning camera. Developed by Michael
Collette, this camera produces remarkable images. Here we
see the panorama photographs printed on a HP 3500CP
wide format inkjet printer on media courtesy of Rexam Graphics.
The
view here shows the enlargement using a Nikon CoolPix 950
of the wide format print nailed to a beam. The uneven pegging
caused the picture to sag, hence the curve in the top and
bottom of the panoramas (in other words, the quality of the
original print is much better than what we can pass over the
Internet after JPEGing).
Photographed
with a digital insert developed by Better Light provided courtesy
of Dicomed
using a 4x5 camera provided courtesy of Wisner
outfitted with a Schneider
lens. Turntable, software, and system generously provided
by Michael Collette, Better Light. The original image has
enough dpi to print at a monumental size but I reduced the
size down to about 180 dpi since I had been told beforehand
that the HP was glacially slow.
The
panorama of Sinkin Creek (Shannon
County, Missouri) is reduced here to 36 inches wide. The
field is alongside a neighboring wild trout stream, Barren
Fork. Laminated using a GBC Eagle 105 (which left many bubbles,
possibly from the way the Kinko's employees fed the image
into the laminator).
For
other panoramas with the Better Light system see the portfolio
of photographer Stephen Johnson.
Contact
is Mike Collete at info@betterlight.com
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reports by Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth
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UPDATED:
July 06/2001
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