Panorama's question.

[Maezel]

Much better now

 

[petrochemist115 140]

Lovely shot, you've got it spot on!

I usually aim the center focusing point to the horizon, for consistancy then crop the final image if I want the horizon off the center line (and often shoot portrait for the component shots).
If I need a little more height than this will give me I use the rule of thirds grid instead of the center spot, possibly using two rows...

 

[StoneNYC]

When I take a panorama I just take one picture and them I don't have any of these problems

 

[480sparky38 37]

When I take a panorama I just take one picture and them I don't have any of these problems

I tried that once, but the lens with the 360° FOV was freakin' expensive!

 

[StoneNYC]

When I take a panorama I just take one picture and them I don't have any of these problems

I tried that once, but the lens with the 360° FOV was freakin' expensive!

Haha! There's that canon 8mm fisheye or whatever it is... But I was talking about real pano photos, not stitches, like the old fashioned way on panoramic film cameras

These are way different of course, I was being silly of course.

I have never done stitching so it never occurred to me about the horizon line issue. But I can see how that would be a problem.

There's also the fact the OP is using a zoom lens instead if a prime, so there's most likely a lot more distortion on the zoom lens.

 

[480sparky38 37]

When I take a panorama I just take one picture and them I don't have any of these problems

I tried that once, but the lens with the 360° FOV was freakin' expensive!

Haha! There's that canon 8mm fisheye or whatever it is... But I was talking about real pano photos, not stitches, like the old fashioned way on panoramic film cameras

These are way different of course, I was being silly of course.

I have never done stitching so it never occurred to me about the horizon line issue. But I can see how that would be a problem.

There's also the fact the OP is using a zoom lens instead if a prime, so there's most likely a lot more distortion on the zoom lens.

There is a Nikkor fisheye with a 220° FOV.

And there is a way of taking a 360° pano in a single shot......... if you want to dig up an old Cirkut that still works.

 

[StoneNYC]

I tried that once, but the lens with the 360° FOV was freakin' expensive!

Haha! There's that canon 8mm fisheye or whatever it is... But I was talking about real pano photos, not stitches, like the old fashioned way on panoramic film cameras

These are way different of course, I was being silly of course.

I have never done stitching so it never occurred to me about the horizon line issue. But I can see how that would be a problem.

There's also the fact the OP is using a zoom lens instead if a prime, so there's most likely a lot more distortion on the zoom lens.

There is a Nikkor fisheye with a 220° FOV.

And there is a way of taking a 360° pano in a single shot......... if you want to dig up an old Cirkut that still works.

A friend of mine has one of 20 Nikon 6mm prime NON-fisheye lenses ever made for the old film cameras back in the 70's or 80's... He won't even let me touch it... It cost $20,000 BACK THEN!

 

[480sparky38 37]

A friend of mine has one of 20 Nikon 6mm prime NON-fisheye lenses ever made.........

Do tell us more.......

 

[petrochemist115 140]

When I take a panorama I just take one picture and them I don't have any of these problems

I tried that once, but the lens with the 360° FOV was freakin' expensive!

Mine (a Kaidan 360) was only £40, woth the DSLR bracket.
Seemed worth the cost to me, even if it's only a toy.


nepw P1080495 small by Analyst 1, on Flickr

 

[StoneNYC]

A friend of mine has one of 20 Nikon 6mm prime NON-fisheye lenses ever made.........

Do tell us more.......

Not much to tell, he bought it for a job to take interiors of a new airplane that was coming out and billed the airline for the lens

Those were the days.

 

[480sparky38 37]

A friend of mine has one of 20 Nikon 6mm prime NON-fisheye lenses ever made.........

Do tell us more.......

Not much to tell, he bought it for a job to take interiors of a new airplane that was coming out and billed the airline for the lens

Those were the days.

I've never heard of a non-fisheye 6mm Nikkor. And neither has Nikon.

 

[StoneNYC]

Do tell us more.......

Not much to tell, he bought it for a job to take interiors of a new airplane that was coming out and billed the airline for the lens

Those were the days.

I've never heard of a non-fisheye 6mm Nikkor. And neither has Nikon.

Not sure who you checked with, there were only a few made ever and so it's possible since it was 40-50 years ago that the info isn't really well known?

I'll ask my friend about it again.