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Panoramic images with Fuji S5500

  • 26-10-2005 12:22pm
    #1
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭


    Folks,
    I'm trying to find a way of taking paroramic shots with my S5500, but every time I move the camera to recompose, the auto exposure changes again to handle the change in light - resulting in differing contrasts of photographs for the larger image.

    How do I lock the AE so that it doesn't change when I push the shutter button down half way? I think it has something to do with the lock to the left of the camera, but I've tried everything I can with that and it's not doing anything!

    Cheers,
    S.


Comments

  • #2
    dublinguy05
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭dublinguy05


    Shoot in manual mode and set the hyper focal distance on the lens.


  • #3
    Enygma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭Enygma


    Press the AF/MF button on the top left until you get MF on the screen (Manual Focus)
    Now you hold down the +/- button (I think, it'll tell you anyway) and use the W - T buttons to set the focus.

    You should also probably be in Manual mode (M on the ring at the top) so you can set the shutter speed and aperture for each exposure.


  • #4
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    So it's just being in manual mode that stops the AE? I know how to use the manual mode ok.
    Just to make sure - I'm not talking about auto focus here, but the auto exposure.

    I'll try the manual mode when I get home then.

    Cheers,
    S.


  • #5
    dublinguy05
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭dublinguy05


    In manual mode you set the exposure yourself by setting the shutter speed and aperature. As I also mentioned you should set the hyper focal distcance on the lens too this will give you a better depth of field.


  • #6
    ShayHT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭ShayHT


    But even if you lock the shutter speed and aperature the photos will look different will they not? Don't worry about until you get them into photoshop then change them in there???


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  • #7
    dublinguy05
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭dublinguy05


    This is were taking panos gets tricky, you can take different reading and try and decide which exposure setting would work best or alernatively you can bracket your shots ie. over expose by one stop and underexpose by one stop( depends you might want to bracket at 1/2 stops). This would mean that you take 3 shots per scene. Are you using a pano head or a ballhead?? how many photos are you going to stich together and are they shot in horizontal or vertical setup???


  • #8
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    It all seems so simple now... I can't believe I didn't think of doing that.

    I've nothing planned at the moment. I've tried up to 6 images before, but not even photoshop could fix the differences between the contrast in them. It's just something that I want to be able to do when the time comes. Mostly scenery and the like, nothing vertical, all horizontal.

    I'll give that a go then so!

    Cheers,
    S.


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