Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Johnny Deadman <john@p...> 
wrote:
> on 8/2/01 11:03 PM, mwesley250@e... at mwesley250@e...
> 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.

John,

I have tried some 360's with a digital camera and they are really 
cool until I printed them out on an 8.5 X 11 sheet. BIG let down. 
Even going up to 13 X 19 would do very little good.

Inkjets are perfect for this if you have the right paper. There is no 
good way to easily do this in the darkroom. How long is a 35mm Spin 
Shot neg?

> 
(snip)
> 
> 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.

This is on my to do list. I don't know if my computer could handle it 
but I would like to try stitching some 85MB scans of 6X7 negs. What 
software are you using for your stiching?

Martin