PanoTools NG:
Re: pseudo "scanning" a large map
paul womack 2007-Nov-30 14:54:03
Bruno Postle wrote:
> On Fri 30-Nov-2007 at 09:56 +0000, paul womack wrote:
>>>> I certainly don't have a flatbed scanner that size,
>>>> and a tesselated scan would on my A4 flatbed
>>>> would endanger the map physically.
>
>>> http://www.dojoe.net/tutorials/linear-pano/
>> I saw that; I believe I can avoid some
>> of that complexity by situtating my pano-head a good distance"
>> e.g. 8 feet from the map, and using a long lens (say 100mm in 35mm terms)
>> and making a simple "tiled" set of photos.
>
> If you use a pano-head and don't move the camera, then this is just
> a 'normal' panorama, just set your output to 'rectilinear' and use
> horizontal and vertical control points to straighten it up.
>
I was unclear on what a "normal" lens (even a mathematical
idealisation of a normal lens) did w.r.t lengths.
Sounds like my life is going to be easier than I thought.
BugBear
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