Wallace Koopmans Artlog

While it doesn’t actual replace the need for a wide angle lens, stitching images together can help in a pinch.  I wanted to get a reference image of this old bulldozer but I was too close with the lens that I had (that’s a whole other story as to why I only had a 28mm prime lens with me).  My solution was to meter the scene for all aspects and then shoot a series of images in manual mode.  It’s necessary to control the exposure to ensure a good match, if you let the camera control the exposure then as you frame each image it will want to make changes to the shutter speed and aperture.  So once I have all my images back home I use a piece of software that is actually free, not spam spam spam and pay us a fee, Microsoft’s Image Composite Editor.  It does such a good job I would hate to be a commercial company trying to make a similar product.

And after the magic I have an image that would have required a much wider lens to create.

The Konica I from the late 1940’s has an interesting feature or lack of one depending on your perspective.  Because the shutter is on the lens and has no linkage to the body there is no film advance lock out.  What this means is that the advancing of the film is entirely independent of the taking of the picture.  I’ve experimented on this roll of film by partially advancing the film and panning so that the two or more exposures overlap.  I’m pleased with the first effort but now I want to do it again with my new knowledge and see if I can’t get some more interesting results.