In the film era, i used many cameras from different brands but for 35 mm minolta was my real fav. I loved how they were innovatives and how beautiful were their viewfinders ...
Switching to digital i had to leave Minolta and switched to Nikon but i couldn't resist to buy a dimage 7i in 2002 and a dimage A1 in 2003. They were not real working tools but mostly the cameras you always have with you. I have to say that i had a great fun with them. I sold the 7i when i bought the A1 and the A1 died (sony sensor problem) two years ago.
It's not impossible that the photo posted above is the biggest portrait ever done with a dimage A1. It's a stitched mosaic of 12 images and weights more than 22 million pixels. I own a print measuring a little more than 1 meter large and i love it. Nobody could tell it was done with a 5 mpx camera.
I've spent hours and hours looking at the original file and at the print, i've never seen any stiching problem.
I don't really know why i did that. This tree is in the forest around my home, i love him and have many shots of him. One day i had this idea that's all :)
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I think my last comment was lost... This is so amazing! He looks like he's laughing!
Cool Patrick...very strange & interesting formation! Reminds me of the tree in "Legend of Sleepy Hollow", but friendlier:)
I LOVE the character of old gnarled and twisted trunks. Great photo! I would like to climb around on there.
If you shoot RAW, doesn't it take a long time to convert all to JPGS?
What I've been doing lately is saving everything as a TIFF for best print quality, then downsizing to hi-res and then low-res JPGs. I was wondering if I should start using RAW. Any ideas about that?
PS - You did a fantastic job stitching it together!
Thank's all for your input.
Lynda, i will make a short answer here. Yes shooting raw definitely worth the time you'll spend processing the files. I don't have done any jpeg shot for many years and processing raw files is a normal step of my workflow.
I'm going to try it, Patrick!
on dirait une créature hurlant de peur! beau cliché!
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