In order to test the new panorama feature, I decided to repost a few digital stitches.
This is a four photo stitch of the mirror structure in the glass dome of the German parliament in Berlin. The original dome was destroyed during WW-II and the new glass dome was built by architect Lord Norman Foster as part of the renovation in the 1990's. A mirror structure in the center of the dome is several stories tall and directs daylight into the main parliament meeting room just below the dome (http://www.bundesbaugesellschaft.de/en/rtg.htm)
The mirror structure so tall, that even a very wide angle lens would not have worked well. The picture you see was stitched together from four individual pictures made with the little Canon S400. If you look closely, you may be able to see the photographer and his son in the top mirrors.
Image details: Digital stitch of four landscape images. All pictures are 2272x1704, aperture 2.8, and focal length 7.4mm. The exposure times were 1/636s for the top two, 1/501s for the next, and 1/404s for the bottom image. The resulting vertical stitch has a resolution of 1994x4555 pixels.
First uploaded 9/8/2004 as "Enlighten the Parliament" at as http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=545270.
Yes, I see you! A perfect application for a panorama in vertical orientation. I cannot understand why people use this format so rarely. I find about one in three of my panorama-camera shots is vertical...
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{K:86139} 12/25/2005
