Panoramic View

[Linda Torrence]

If a picture is taken with your camera and is on the panoramic view setting, does it make it less clear then if you take it with your normal shot? I took a lot of pictures like this on vacation to Greece, Rome, etc. and they don't seem to have the clarity as the regular ones do. I still have the negatives, but can those negatives be develop in the regular size, instead of the panoramic size? These are really nice pictures and want them to look the best possible.

Thanks,
Granny7

[Mike]

You have a film camera that has a panorama setting? How does that work? Is it a single shot that is basically a wide angle shot or do you take several overlapping shots that all get put onto one frame of film?

[Helge Erik Storheim]

Cameras that used APS film had a "Panoramic" setting. I think it only masked the top and bottom of the APS film frame to make it look like a panoramic image.

[Josh Sudweeks]

You must be shooting with APS film? I didn't now that format was still used. That film has 3 different image formats, H (high definition) which uses the entire negitive, C (classic) which is a 3:2 image format, and P (panoramic) which just crops the top and bottom of the frame for a panoramic look. Shooting in different modes, doesn't change what is captured on the negitive, but it marks how it should be cropped when processing it. So you can shoot in P and print in H. If you did shoot in P and print in H, the quality won't be any better, but you will get the top and bottom of the frame back that you wanted to crop out.


Hopefully that makes sense - you can find more information here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Photo_System

[Jase]

@mikehamm @helstor @sudweeks Regular 35mm does panoramic as well, but as already said it just 2 shutters that mask the top and bottom of the shot. This was shot on my 35mm Pentax Espio using panoramic mode

[Linda Torrence]

My camera that took these shots is an older one that I sometimes use. I don't do any developing, the drugstores do. I'll have to read up more on it, but I think I get what your saying. These were done on an important vacation to Greece, Rome, Egypt and Italy. The camera that these pictures were shot with, I believe, is a Minolta Explorer Freedom 200M Zoom EX. It also says, Multi AF Panorama on the front of it. I believe I used Kodak 400 Max Versatility to take them. I still have the film, that is outdated. Use by 2006, I think it would be interesting to take some pictures with this 6 yr. old film just to see how it would turn out, what do you experts think? But not in Panoramic.

[Jase]

@granny7 It will be fine, the above shot was using 2006 expired film as well.

[Paula x2 Brumbe]

@mikehamm I have no idea how it works, but I have an old olympus point and shoot 35 mm film that shoots panoramic. It is one of the reasons I kept the camera for so long is that I could not find it on a digital point and shoot. I think it changes the size of the film exposed, but I definitely get real panoramas that are still some of my favorite.

[Linda Torrence]

Thanks everyone. Glad I kept the camera, after reading all your response's. I can't believe that this 6 yr. old film is still good, Wow, that's incredible. I'll sure give it a try.

[Linda Torrence]

@38mm Your picture is beautiful. Do you feel that a panoramic shot is as clear as the ones that aren't? If not, do you ever edited them to try and sharpen them in i-photo or whatever you use?

Thanks, Granny7