Creating panoramas with 35mm film?

Question

I often cannot line up, all the picture, only one place lines up. I do use a tripod and it has nocthes on it, which I also use.

May I just add that I'm doing this for my college course, and I have been asked to do it on film and glue them together once printed. Thanks for the answers if I was doing it on film.

Answer 1

Are you scanning and stitching them together on your computer? If so, this might help:

http://www.ptgui.com/

If not, then don't get too worked up about it. Making perfect panoramas without digital assistance is very difficult -- some would say impossible. There's a reason people pay thousands of dollars for panorama cameras.

EDIT: On film, you'll find that the lens you use is extremely important. You need something with essentially no distortion, and no fall-off towards the edges; this can usually be achieved by using a relatively small aperture, but some lenses require a special neutral-density filter which is more opaque towards the center.

Once you have a lens with virtually no distortion (something like the old 28mm AI-s Nikkor), the next thing you want is to determine the point that you want your camera to pivot around. Most tripods are set up in such a way that the camera swivels (horizontally) about a point somewhere around the focal plane, inside the camera. What you actually want is for the camera to swivel about the entrance pupil of the lens. People that do a lot of this kind of thing usually use a panoramic tripod head to achieve this effect. You'll find that doing this will make the pictures more-or-less "line up" in a way that they haven't before. They still won't be perfect.

Answer 2

Are you trying to glue paper prints together to make a pan? That would be VERY difficult to do! No matter how careful you are, your tripod will move just a tiny bit between exposures, making it an almost impossible task to line up the different prints perfectly. But there are several digital programs that can do this with pretty good success.

Make sure your exposure doesn't change from picture to picture, so you will need to use your camera on manual.

Good luck!

Answer 3

You must have 30-50% overlap, and even then it is never quite right.
If you are allowed to have your film scanned ,you can use the Panorama programme in Photoshop elements for very good results. Overlap as above and exposure the same on all exposures.

Answer 4

I would recommend scanning these images and using an excellent "Canon" program called photo stitch. If you can't get this try searching download.com for photo stitching software.
Its very good. TOP TIP: Take all the photos at the same exposure they tend to match much better this way....... Good Luck!