Comments on: Horizont: a true panoramic camera

By: imsolidstate

imsolidstate — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:51:52 +0000

My email is on the About Me page. Thanks!

By: Life2Death

Life2Death — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:36:58 +0000

Strange, my Nikon D50 didnt come with it, or maybe its on that cd that i threw away…

autostitch is pretty cool though. On another note, I cant find your email anywhere on your site!

You inspired me to build a CNC mill myself…and I want to improve on your plant water meter with a solar light mod!

By: imsolidstate

imsolidstate — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:25:27 +0000

I use Arcsoft Panorama Maker. It came with my Nikon digital camera. It usually gets the stitches right without any intervention. There’s a few of them in my photography section.

By: Life2Death

Life2Death — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:31:05 +0000

I cant even remember what I used to scan it. I know the office document scanner doesnt try to chop things up, in fact this is one of the reasons it sucks for most negatives.

I assume you use autostitch? I love that program. Most of the time it works better than anything I’ve tried.

By: imsolidstate

imsolidstate — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:46:47 +0000

Thanks for the comment. The digital SLRs are awesome. I can’t really afford the camera I would want though so I stick with film for the time being.
I tried the scanner route. I couldn’t find a scanner that didn’t have the little plastic windows that only accepted standard format frames. I could place the negative directly on the glass, but it would still try and chop it up in software. My grandpa successfully scanned some for me, but like I said the stitching software is just easier and makes for a bigger print anyway.
The Horizont uses standard film cases, so finding film isn’t a problem. Yet.

By: Life2Death

Life2Death — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:20:34 +0000

I had assumed your problem would be getting film for this camera, not developing it as there are home kits for doing it along with mail-based developers still around. My dad stuck to film until he saw what my D50 could do and got himself a D80 for xmas.

In school we had to develop our own film (B/W is easy, strait forward developing.)

Its getting the prints thats the nightmare. But if you have the negatives and a good scanner you can skip the whole mess of projecting the negative to a positive, developing that…

By: Jorge Crapser

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By: Jack Grimes

Jack Grimes — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:20:24 +0000

Sometime when we are together we’ll have to fix that light leak. We should be able to figure it out mathematically based on where the lens would be to strike the film on the right as it does.