Chuck,
Too late I realized, in my excitement, that I had the CF card in, not the XD
card. From the XD card I could likely make up a panorama; from the CF I
don't have the knowledge or the software.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: rainbow
> Perhaps you forgot about the possibility of combing many of your digital
> shots into both vertical and horizontal panorama form to make up for the
> narrow angle of view of the digi lenses? Multiple hand held shots for
> panoramas often work out well for distant subjects since there is little
> or no parallax error. But you do need enough manual control to hold a
> constant exposure.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Wayne Culberson wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> This is my only rainbow shot.
>>>
>>> Initially seen throught the rear view mirror. OM4T / 35-80/2.8 grab shot
>>> on
>>> 160 ISO Portra late one afternoon. It was gone within 20 seconds.
>>>
>>> www.johnhudsonphoto.com/124.html
>>>
>>> jh
>>>
>>
>> John,
>> Normally they disappear so quickly, I don't even try to go for the
>> camera.
>> When I saw this one, I immediately called for my wife to come see it.
>> After
>> about a minute or two, I decided to rush for the cameras, believing I'd
>> never get back in time. Anyways, I began with the 17mm on the OM1n, as I
>> knew it is the only lens I have that would get the whole arc. My daughter
>> was trying to back up enough to get it in with her digital 410 stylus,
>> and I
>> was trying to explain it wouldn't help. I took some shots with the arc
>> completely circling our little white church building, our house, etc. Of
>> course the 17mm was distorting the church building quite a bit, so I'll
>> have
>> to see how they look in the picture. Some of our people who saw the
>> rainbow
>> have already asked for prints of it with the church. I think that's a bit
>> premature, but oh well.
>>
>> You've been here, so you know the place. Jean and I decided to walk up to
>> the falls, so I just took along the MJU with 2.8, thinking it would
>> surely
>> be gone before we got there, as it is about 1/2 to 1 km walk. That was a
>> mistake. Anyways, like the C5050, it is only a 35mm wide lens, but I took
>> about another roll of 100vs, some with the arc ending over the falls,
>> some
>> with it ending over the bridge, some over the chalet style house across
>> the
>> falls, etc.
>> In all, it must have lasted well over 45 minutes, now that I think about
>> it.
>> And it never really diminished in intensity. Very unusual in that way.
>>
>> But it is not as intense in colors as yours, for sure.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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