if you need to do interior panoramas, you need very wide angle lenses. you
have to show at least up to the ceiling and usually well onto the ceiling so
that the VR software showed enough to be realistic. unless you are into
multirow panoramas and stitching dozens of shots at a time, you want the
widest lens you can get. in fact, a proper fisheye lens to allow 3 shots to
do a full room would be best. the more time you spend on a single panorama,
the less your time is worth. Pentax doesn't make one properly wide enough
for the *istD.
Herb...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:19 PM
Subject: Interior photography and the *istD
I may have a line on a job taking photographs for a company that does
interior and exterior work for real estate companies. While I don't
know the details of said work just yet, I do know that they provide
those interior panoramas that are quite popular with online real
estate listings. If the job pans out I'm considering purchasing an
*istD or DS. Was wondering if any of you might have an opinion on
which lenses might be most useful in that situation? My first
thoughts were to get the widest lens I could find, but after looking
at some of the wonderful landscape panoramas stitched together by Mark
I'm not sure that a super wide angle lens would be absolutely
necessary.
