Shift Lens Stitching

2014-11-22 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: digital sensor, image stitching, oversampling, shift lens, tilt shift, true-color sensor or image

Yesterday’s interview with Ming Thein led one reader to inquire about shift lens stitching.

Some years ago I was doing shift-lens stitching, always seeking really good optics (which never happened!), see Equipment for shift lens stitching from 2006. Also, Really Right Stuff sells specialty brackets for multi-row rotational stitching. Related reading:

• Using the Sigma DP3 Merrill for Stitching: 66 Megapixels of Biting Sharpness
• Stitching with the Sigma DP2 Merrill
• Stitching (search) and shift lens
• Content aware fill for fixing gaps in stitched rotational panoramas
• Oversampling for Image Quality (109 Megapixel Sony RX100 tulips)
• iPhone 5s vs Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Phones (Oversampling and Downsampling)
• Sensor Photosite Density on the Sony Cybershot DSC-RX100
• Photographic Film Really Was Not Much of a Performer

Funny how this 26 megapixel image from the 12-megapixel Canon 5D seemed high-res at the time. Now we talk about 80 megapixels from 36 instead of 26 from 12.

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Quarry House, Norway
Canon 5D-IR + Nikon 85mm f/2.8D PC-Micro-Nikkor, stitched image

Tioga Lake, 2009-05-30 09:42
Canon 5D-IR + Coastal Optics 60mm f/4 UV-VIS-IR APO Macro, infrared stitched 75MP