What if your camera could see everything that you can see? The human visual system has a field of view of around 135 x 200 degrees, but a typical compact camera has a field of view of only 35 x 50 degrees. Panoramic image mosaicing works by taking lots of pictures from an ordinary camera, and stitching them together to form a composite image with a much larger field of view.

The Panoramic images that appear on the links page started originally as a series of still images, all digital, generally starting from left to right with overlap between pictures. I have found that an approximate 10 degree turn of the camera to the next image provides an ideal overlap to produce quality panoramics. Only a few of these panoramics were shot with a tripod. Ideally, the center of the turning radius should be directly under the optical center of the taking lens. Most all of these images were made with a
28 mm equivalent lens, all manually focused and manual exposure. Most of the images were taken with the camera in the horizontal format with 10 degree overlap.Vertical format would need 8 degree overlap.

A number of years ago I luckily found a "freeware" software that automatically "stitched" the individual images into a panoramic. The software is named AutoStitch and was downloaded from:

http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html

The software is free to download for non-commercial use only. The AutoStitch software is now available as an App for iPhone. All the panoramics shown were built with AutoStitch.

When you click on the Panoramics Page link, a new window will open. Click on any Picture & a slide show will begin. To stop the slide show, click on the Start/Stop button at the top of the page. You may navigate through the pages & pictures by using the buttons at the top of each page.

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