Street Panoramas Book

I’ve been intending to make a shelf-challenging book of panoramic photos for a long time but the intended size has even intimidated me, so in the meantime, I’ve put together a small, pocket-sized, version. Entitled, Small Book Big City, this is a limited edition of only ten copies and to ease the pain of the size versus price ratio it comes with a print (approx 20″ / 50cm long) of one of the images. You can see all the pictures in the book and find out more, here.

Ticket, Got a Ticket

Sorry this file is a bit big. The jpeg compression was really visible in the red.

I’ve also put a new stitched panorama here.

Bollard

I’ve made a new page for the Cyclops panoramic camera.

I get quite a lot of hits from people searching for pictures of bollards. They often fail because I removed one so I thought I’d put this up and then people can also tell me why they are looking for them.

Dead Camera III: It Lives

I managed to put the Cyclops back together and although it’s not perfect it has improved. It seems I managed to put the loose lens element back in the right place but it still needs some adjustment. I think the lens needs to start from slightly further around because I’m getting a dark area at the start of the swing. This means I’m losing about 1 cm of the 155 x 55 mm negative (could be worse!). There is some evidence of camera shake - the lens movement is fairly violent - but it would be a shame not to be able use it for handheld pictures.

You can also see a bigger version (edit - pic removed) and one other from this morning.

[Update: added a page (Feb '04) on the Cyclops].

More Stretching

This is another picture stitched from three digital pictures. You can also see a bigger version.