Making life a little simpler, I roughed out the layout of the 6bit codes in Corel draw and tossed a sheet of cardboard in my laser, then a bit of glossy photopaper for the actual stencil. the result is a simply lock in place paper stencil.
More pictures and layout for DIY types or purchase a ready to use template after the link.
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One of the cool things about the Olympus 4:3 system cameras is the shorter flange distance, this means it is possible to mount almost any old 35mm film lens on the 4:3 system camera.
This works easily when using slower lenses such as f. 4 and f 5.6 glass. however I did run into a lot of problems when trying to use my fast old Nikon lenses.
The images would become a huge blur of light and flare.
After playing a little with this it turns out the the solution is a very simple black baffle at the end of the lens.
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You have probably already played with photographing panoramas "the hard way", one frame at a time and then stiching them. There are other ways. One of them are photographing a sphere and using software to unwrap the image into a regtangular panorama image, which can be used for a interactive panorama.
NOTE - this is a older article written in reference to using my Olympus E10 camera, however this information applied equally to using any modern DSLR camera for the same process.
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Think you need to use a high-end panorama bracket and tripod for quality panoramas..? Think again, lots of photographers are using just a string and a little weight.
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