Jestersix

Questions on wide angles lenses

I thought Sanjay had one yet he hasn't chimed in on the "other' thread :(
 
I have both the Nikon 12-24mm f/4 and the 17-55mm f/2.8.

I take most of the FTS with one or the other. As for a more detailed tank shot, not really. That really depends on the sensor and its resolving power. You'll get better resolution (more detailed) out of a something with a bigger sensor (i.e. full frame). But to do that with Nikon, can't use any DX lenses, so the two lenses above are out of the question. Have to step up to the 14-24mm f/2.8 AFS, which is bank...
 
Worth noting that if you have a cropped sensor (fairly common), then your wide angle lens may no longer be "wide angle". 1.6 crop is common. I have an 17-85 mm lens which is the 35mm equivalent of a on my camera of the standard 28-135 mm.
 
One thing I sometimes do to get more detail on a FTS is I shoot a few shots with my macro lens and use the pano feature on photoshop to join all the shots together.
 
iani said:
One thing I sometimes do to get more detail on a FTS is I shoot a few shots with my macro lens and use the pano feature on photoshop to join all the shots together.
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Hugin + GIMP to do it for free :p
 
Here is the last one that I posted. Am I just trying to solve a problem that is not really solvable.

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iani said:
One thing I sometimes do to get more detail on a FTS is I shoot a few shots with my macro lens and use the pano feature on photoshop to join all the shots together.
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You saw mine from last night ;)
 
If you want more detail you need to have more pixels and you need more "stuff" in focus.

To have more pixels, you need either a new camera or you stitch many photos together.
Ian mentioned Pano using Adobe. I've never used it. I use Hugin. It is free and does amazingly well
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/download/

Here are two pictures I put together with no effort

(using my wife's $200 point and shoot camera. Stitched maybe 7-8 photos)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b248/BeyondGomer/joists.jpg

(very little effort involved here: macro lens on tripod. 12 images)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b248/BeyondGomer/SPSpano-1.jpg

See if you can find the stitching ;) (hint, you can see it sorta because I didn't crop correctly along the bottom right edge)



To get more stuff in focus, use a smaller aperature (higher F#)
This gets harder because you will have a slower shutter speed. This pretty much will force you into a tripod.
(a lower iso also helps, but it also has the same penalty of slower shutter speed)
 
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