Digital BW, The Print

on 8/2/01 11:03 PM, mwesley250@... at mwesley250@...
wrote:

> Earlier the issue of panorama paper was brought up by John Brownlow
> (Post #46) and I don't want the thread to die out without an answer.
> While there are art paper options for the big printers in rolls there
> is a need for Panorama sized paper for the desktop models.

Thanks boss. This is an interesting question. The panoramic format seems to
be exploding at the moment due to the availablity of high quality stitching
programs etc. Good! Perhaps because of unfamiliarity panoramic photos
(especially 360s) have a *wow* quality we have not seen in photography for
some time. I have been experimenting recently and the possibility of
stitching together separate 35mm or digital frames opens up entirely new
avenues, many entirely unexplored.

> But if there were 13" and 17" wide rolls of art paper you could just
> cut off the length you wanted and hand feed it. That way you could do
> 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, or 1:?  panorama's as desired.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get something like this?
> 
> It would be really great to have a 12" by 36" B&W print matted and
> framed up on the wall!!!

indeed. I would just be happy to have an 8" x 27" print right now, but the
*really* interesting part of stitched photos is that the resolution is
fairly independent of the format it's shot in. Using spherical mapping
programs you can comp together arbitrarily large images from whatever format
you like. I can shoot something on 35mm that basically looks like 4x5
because when you stitch all the negatives together you have one huge
(virtual) negative. It would be nice to be able to output this.


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John Brownlow

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