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04 President’s Message 14 St. Helena - 1st Place Architecture REPORT: IAPP International Convention Making a Panorama by 2002 International Convention 04 A Call To All Members By Will Landon By Peter Lorber 15 I’m In Love With Annie Morphic 04 IAPP Member of the Year: By Paul Pasquarello D. John McCarthy 16 Discussion of Digital Panorama Page 05 Page 08 05 REPORT: IAPP International Cameras Convention By Hellmuth Newton Creating Spherical for Print I’m In Love With Annie Morphic 07 Print Competition Results 20 Nevada Wide: Panoramic Photogra- phy of the Silver State 07 New Members 22 Sandison Exhibit Takes the Wider 07 Meet Our President: View Ron Klein 23 Things Panoramic from the Photo- 08 Making a Panorama by graphic History Collection Page 12 Page 15 Photomontage By Robert Feinman 24 Buy, Sell and Trade Classified Ads for Members Nevada Wide Things Panoramic 10 The Online Exhibit Taking the long View 24 Self-Publiching Your Own Photo Book By Peter E. Randall 11 Panoramic Workshop 26 IAPP 2003 Membership Form 12 Creating Spherical Panoramas for Print Page 20 Page 23 By Jook Leung

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President’s Message The Future of IAPP A Call To All Members By Peter Lorber By Ron Klein

WOW, what happened? I’m setting in they are not members already. Photography as we know it is changing daily. Digital is here and the IAPP is this room minding my own business moving along with it. The convention in Shepherdstown highlighted digital and WHAM the next thing I know I’m Imagine, if you can, our next conven- as the direction many of our members are taking. Now is the time for us to the president of IAPP. tion filled with the excite- diversify by encouraging others interested in panoramics and digital to join and ment and interest of new contribute. Seriously, in assuming the members. Not only do P Wpresidency, it is my strong we, as old geezers, get I am hereby calling on all the membership to sign up one new member through- desire that we can see our to pass the torch to a out the year. Not only would the IAPP gain a new member, but the contribu- organization grow and younger crowd, but as tions that new member can make. In addition, these same new members will gain the recognition that well, we can learn some benefit from being part of the IAPP family. it deserves. Although not new tricks ourselves. This attending every meeting is a party I look forward of our association, I have to attending. IAPP Member of the Year been involved since the beginning in 1984. I hope But in the meantime, let’s D. John McCarthy that we can continue with get on with the business By Addie Lorber the energy and enthu- of business. It isn’t hard siasm of that very first to see we need a mem- Those of us who have been IAPP the second year in a row. He also gathering. bership drive. Working with the new members know John McCarthy and helped the O’Malleys and Jan Burg board, I hope we can get something the active roll he has plan the Boston con- We are rapidly approaching our twenti- rolling. always taken. John ference. eth year as an association. This is truly has been a member for an accomplishment on its own. We A website upgrade is happening, and need to leverage this achievement into possibly brochures touting the ben- Tsome time, served as a John has always been attracting more interest in IAPP. Our efits of becoming a member of the member of the Board available to the IAPP organization needs new members in association. As well I believe we need and has, through Fuji members for any order to survive and be notable. to offer the current members something Photo, been a sponsor advice regarding film new. Write and tell me what you want at most of our conven- and equipment. Even To me it seems odd that the current to see accomplished. tions. This year in though he represents membership levels are low consider- Shepherdstown, John Fuji Photo, you can ing how the subject of panoramic pho- If you are interested in helping, I will went even further by always count on John tography seems to be quite in vogue absolutely jump at your input. We need arranging and sponsor- for professional and today. Quite frankly we have a lot of all the help that can be gathered. Even ing 2 dynamic speak- objective advice. talent that needs proper exposure to simple suggestions will be given my ers, Art Rainville and the world. full attention. Feel free to contact me at Nick Meers. He also made sure we I cannot think of one member who any time, if not about panoramic pho- It is pretty hard not to see a panoramic tography, how about a fishing trip to would have the Fuji award for the deserves this award more than John image in your favorite magazine, or Alaska? You are always welcome. best in show picture. McCarthy. note an exhibition of panoramic work by some famous artist. It is important Enjoy the holidays, In addition to Shepherdstown, John Congratulations John. that we attract the people creating all arranged a conference in Italy for this new work and get them to join if Ron Klein / your new president Five

REPORT: IAPP International Convention Shepherdstown, West Virginia

The International Convention held in panoramic cameras to add a more visual Leung’s presentation concentrated on gave us historic panoramas and digital Shepherdstown, West Virginia was not presence to the art of panoramic photog- spherical panoramas that really added a imaging. No one really wanted this to the biggest convention ever held, but raphy. The faculty and staff of the col- new dimension to panoramic photogra- end, as the images were just amazing. was probably one of the most successful lege were literally “blown away”. phy. In addition, Jook won first prize in Phil explained a little how the images in terms of presentations. The speakers the people category of the print compe- were digitized. Later in the day, Doug Tvaried in topics ranging from historic On Wednesday, Will Landon gave a tition, and he won the Fuji Masterpiece Segal presented his digitally archived panoramas to the avante guard; and multimedia photographic presentation Award for being best in show. collection of Fred Schultz. It is always a each presenter spoke to a full house. If as only Will pleasure listening to Doug who is both I had to summarize the information into can do, bring- Paul articulate and very enthusiastic about one sentence it would be that digital is ing in the old Pasquarello’s his subject matter. Both of these pre- here in a big way, and film is far from and the new. presentation sentations lent credence to the value of over. Of course, entitled Ana- digital files for the purpose of archiving Pat narrated morphic 3-D priceless and historic images. Tuesday evening, October 8th, the Col- which added Photography lege in Shepherdstown honored the more realism offered the Here I have to stop and really thank, IAPP with an exhibit of prints sent in to the photo 3-D view of on behalf of all members and attend- by the membership. There was a small story. The new IAPP Board of Directors. From Left to Right: photography. ees, John McCarthy and Fuji. John has reception where the IAPP attendees Fran Stetina – Secretary/Treasurer, Richard Schneider – President- Everyone always been a strong supporter of the were invited and students and faculty Also on elect, H. Cary Moore – Director, Ron Klein – President, Stephen had fun IAPP, but this year he went above and also came in. Richard worked with the Wednesday Delroy – Director, Alan Zinn – Director, Peter Lorber – Chairman with the 3-D beyond the usual. It was our pleasure people at the college to make the exhibit we went from (Past-President), Ron Karabaich – Director. Photo By David Hittle glasses Paul to announce that John was unanimously happen. David Orbock donated his interesting provided. chosen Member of the Year. time and expertise to mount and matte topics concerning producing handmade many of the prints; and gave a brief cameras by Alan Zinn to publishing Thursday was really packed with cre- Not only did Fuji, through John, sponsor explanation about panoramic photog- a photo book by Peter Randall to the ative and informative presentations. one of our breaks, but they also brought raphy. He also set up a few different more creative side of photography. Jook Phil Michel with the Library of Congress in 2 speakers. One was Nick Meers who journeyed from England to speak on panoramic photog- raphers publications. The other was Art Rainville, our featured speaker. At first you wonder what Art has to do with , but then more on page Six

The Official Group Shot of the 2002 International Convention by Peter Lorber. Six

REPORT: IAPP International Convention from page Five you begin to understand. Art hit home Alan Bank gave us an update on the year John McCarthy. by reiterating values to keep us inter- Fowler Foundation and we all appre- ested in our art and creativity without ciate the contributions made by our Spouses went to lunch at the wonderful getting burned out. Not only that, he members. We plan to put the funds to Bavarian Inn on Thursday, right after gave us the inspiration to go after the excellent use in the future. the group photo. There were 16 of us work we want and never give up. It attending and we had a wonderful time. was all done with humor and sincerity. The trade show was well attended On Saturday the group taking the tour As I looked around the packed room, each evening. Our vendors included bus to Gettysburg enjoyed themselves I could see emotions from laughter to Charette with Epson printers, Scan- tremendously. A special thanks goes tears. vec Amiable with their Photo Print to Benjamin Porter for organizing the family RIP programs, GW Moulding excursion and to Alan and Marilyn Bank The remainder of our Thursday speak- with their beautiful frames, Imacon for acting as chaperones. ers concentrated on digital imaging. scanners, Kaidan, David Orbock, Will Handing of the gavel from President Peter Lorber to incoming President Ron Klein. Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth spoke on digital Landon, George Pearl with Widepan, Congratulations to our new officers and Photo by David Hittle. panorama systems. Andrew Davidhazy, Peter Lorber with Roundshot, Jan Faul, board members. They are: whose very informative articles we have John McCarthy with Fuji, and B&H President: Ron Klein read over the years, spoke on impro- Photo and Video who also sponsored Pres Elect: Richard Schneider vised digital panoramic cameras. one of our breaks. Secy/Treas: Fran Statina Board Members: Stephen Delroy, Ron Friday was our last day for speakers but A special thank you goes to Carlos and Karabaich, Cary Moore and Alan Zinn again; it was jammed with informative Humberto Chavez. Not only were and interesting presentations. Carl Heil- they one of our vendors, but they also On a final note, thank you to our outgo- man and Jan Faul spoke on digital imag- generously donated all the plaques for ing officers and board members. They ing with Photoshop and digital printing our photo contest, to out-going presi- did a wonderful job leading our organi- techniques. Both highlighted their inter- dent Peter Lorber and member of the zation and planning the convention. esting work. George Pearl gave us an insight into how Chinese do business with his story behind the Widepan. The most poignant st speaker was Stephen Delroy Past-President Fred Yake presenting 1 Place in Landscape/Pictorial Panoramic Photography whose pictorial of the aftermath award to Alan Kafton. Photo by David Hittle. of 9/11 really hit home with the enormity of the events.

Alan Kafton organized a panel around digital scanning tech- niques. This was of special interest to everyone with any inkling of getting into digital imaging while still using film. It was informative and gave attendees the opportunity to pick Panel with some of the submissions Andrew Davidhazy from R.I.T. Nicholas Hellmuth from Bowl- many brains and have questions for the Print Competition. Photo by during his lecture. Photo by David ing Green State Univ. during his Past-President Chet Hanchett (left) and lecturer answered. David Hittle. Hittle. lecture. Photo by David Hittle. Nick Meers (right). Photo By Peter Randall Seven Print Competition Meet Our President Results Ron Klein Judges: Jeff Weisenburger, Marie Bristol, Born - Eureka California March 2, 1948 have a one man exhibition of panoramic home of a newly met Russian family. Bill McBride and Phil Stelling. Chet Married – Judy images shot with the cirkut camera. Hanchet broke the tie for the Fuji award. Children – Julia age 22, Peter age 20 Backpacked 50 pounds of cirkut gear, The bulk of my present work is pan- Residence 1208 Pike Court spent over a month shooting in China oramic group photos like Alaskan Abstract: Juneau, Alaska 99801 hosted by the Chinese government. natives in colorful costume, an event 1st - Jook Leung held every two years with thousands of BGrew up in Northern California, I Assembling a mobile to pro- participants. As well my work includes 2nd - Peter Lorber majored in fine art photography at cess cirkut film and prints on the spot, I producing for museum dis- Landscape: Humboldt State University. traveled through the American west in plays and almost any odd photo job 1st - Alan Kafton 1989 - 90. Images include cattle drives that seems interesting. Living in a small 2nd - Jean Yake After spending several summers in and Indian groups as well as scenic town in Alaska somehow demands that 3rd - Peter Lorber Alaska, I permanently moved there views from redwoods to Yosemite and you be more creative than normal. Just in 1975 and began my own business the goosenecks in Utah. remember, there are no roads to Juneau People: “Northlight Photography” the same Alaska, you have to arrive by ship or air. Again lugging #10 cirkut camera, in 1st - Jook Leung year. 1992 I traveled extensively through Other accomplishments: 2nd - Robert Kippenberger Northlight Photography specializes Russia with Russian photographer, I love restoring antique cars, my current 3rd - Alan Kafton in art photography (panoramic), and Volodia Sertoon. From Magadan in project is a 1929 Model A Ford phaeton conservation printing and preserva- the Russian Far East to St. Petersburg with an insane idea to drive it around Architecture: tion of historic photos for the Alaska and back to Vladivostok we spent over the world in the very near future. 1st - Will Landon State library and museum. Our most two months in Russian and never once 2nd - Peter Lorber recent project is to create a major exhi- stayed in a hotel, every night was in the For years I operated a 24 foot steam 3rd -David Orbock bition of photography launch in Alaska with a wood by two Alaskan pioneer fired boiler and a V-compound Fuji Award - Jook Leung photographers. Over steam engine machined by 2,000 glass plate images myself. are being archived from New & Returning Members their work. Self taught machinist with a complete shop. I have a lathe, David Benhoff I began panoramic pho- milling machine, and other Secretary, Maryland tography in 1978 with specialized equipment that are Leo Eger the purchase of first #10 used to make camera parts like Titusville, New Jersey cirkut camera. My collec- gears and other missing items. Robert Feinman tion includes on example Great Neck, New York of all the cirkut sizes Current interests besides fol- Gerald Hanscamp Jr. including the largest, a lowing the digital revolution: Belgrave, Victoria, Australia 22 inch monster used by Joe Jacobson a pioneer photographer I have made a 180 degree turn Lockport, Illinois (returning) in Alaska, and many and taken an interest in early Morrell Ours other vintage panoramic Our new president, Ron Klein, showing that bigger really is better, present- collodion wet plate photogra- Seabrook, Maryland cameras. ing his extremely large 22” Cirkut camera at the 2001 IAPP International phy with a goal to make glass Allen Thomas Convention in Napa, CA. Past-President Liz Hymans lends a hand, help- plate panoramic images in the ing Ron move the camera. Houston, Texas 1986, invited to China to near future. Eight Making a Panorama by Photomontage Robert Feinman I was walking down one of the pic- using the curves tool. For the next image yields distortions caused by projecting like this (figure 4 below). turesque side streets in New Orleans’ I made similar adjustments while trying onto an oblique plane. Several software French Quarter last year and was taking to bring the values in the sidewalk to packages will adjust this to produce pictures of some of the distinctive match the adjacent image. Placing a stitchable pictures. In the present case houses. Since the streets are so narrow color sample point at the same location the point of view changes in each image Imy Noblex 35 did not capture enough in each simplifies this. and none of the existing programs can vertically so I was using my Pentax 67 cope. I decided to fix the perspective with a 45mm lens. As an example, Figure 2 shows the and to minimize the overlap problems left-most image after tonal adjustments. by seaming at the doorways between On one particular street all the houses Notice the improvement in midtone the buildings. Figure 3 shows number seemed interesting so without too much brightness and contrast. 5, one of the worst images after being Figure 4 Figure 5 thought I stopped in front of each one straightened. and took a picture. Conditions were not Revealing pairs of images at a time I ideal since I was shooting against the reduced the opacity of the top image to sun and in order to prevent too much about 60% temporarily, and then moved flare I moved so as to block the direct it so that the doorways overlapped as sun behind some part of the building for best as possible. Then using a fairly each one. Even so there is flare in almost large brush with soft edges I painted on every image. In addition I needed to the mask to selectively reveal the lower the camera upwards so as not too cut image. By setting the brush opacity and off the tops of the buildings. I ended up flow it is possible to cover or blend the Figure 2 with six pictures, each with exposure two images where they overlap. Figure Figure 3 and perspective problems. Once all the images were color balanced 5 above shows the palette with editing and matched for brightness I needed to The next step was to combine all on the masks in place and figure 6 (next The unedited images can be seen in address the second problem, perspec- the images onto one master image. I page) shows the image at this stage of Figures 1a to 1f, below. tive distortion. There are two problems increased the canvas size of the first the editing process. here: first the building fronts are not image by 500% horizontally and 150% Figure 1a - 1f rectangular. They narrow towards the vertically. I then dragged each of the Final steps included some additional There are several problems apparent. top. Second, the buildings on either other five images onto this one and edge cleanup and tonal adjustments First, the exposures are different for side are seen from an oblique angle. shifted them rightward towards their and cloning in some parts of the side- each one. I decided to pick a spot in the This won’t match up with the adjacent approximate positions. Next I added a walk where the blend was too bad. If shadowed part of the sidewalk and try image where the same building is seen mask to layers 1 to 5. The mask layer you look at the original images and the to equalize this. I picked an image and from straight ahead. Images made when will be painted on to blend the adjacent composite you can see that the sky is made tonal corrections in Photoshop rotating the camera between images images. The layers palette now looked bright behind each building and shades

Figure 1a Figure 1b Figure 1c Figure 1d Figure 1e Figure 1f Nine

off to blue on either side. I decided that At the resolution I chose, the final image attempt to make a perfect montage, but “photorealistic”. The final effort is show it was too much work to try and fix this. is about 8 by 56 inches when printed left some of the “seams” showing to here and can also be viewed online at my There were problems with the rooflines on an inkjet printer at 300dpi. Since this indicate that the view is an impossible web site in a larger version. as well. So I selected the sky area and project was an after thought I didn’t one anyway. Not everything has to be filled it with a gradient blue sky. If you Robert Feinman is a retired physicist who look at the completed image you will now spends too much money on photography. see that I didn’t attempt to make this He lives on Long Island. Samples of other perfect either and some of the tones in pictures and Photoshop tips can be found on the branches don’t match up. Last step his web site: http://robertdfeinman.com was to crop to size and flatten the image to a single layer. Left: Figure 6; Below: Finished image

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Panoramic Photographs at the Library of Congress: The On-line Exhibit By Phil Michel Special to Panorama Magazine Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991

The Library of Congress’ Panoramic and mounted them on linen in order to The Digitization Process panoramic photographs were digi- Collection contains approxi- fold the images and store them in boxes. The collection was selected as a high tized from 35mm film produced by a mately four thousand images featuring These vertical fold-lines can be seen in priority-processing project by the Prints contractor in 1992-93 using a modified American cityscapes, landscapes, and the digital reproductions. & Photographs Division in the 1980s. motion picture camera. The full-frame group portraits. These panoramas offer In support of the Library’s American 35 mm exposures were made on color Tan overview of the nation, its enter- The collection is available for searching Memory pilot project, the panoramas motion picture . The contrac- prises and its interests, with a focus and viewing at the Library’s American were selected for electronic imaging, tor, Stokes Imaging, Inc., constructed a on the start of the twentieth century Memory web site. The home page for initially for videodisc and CD-ROM computer-controlled table that moved when the panoramic photo format was the Panoramic Photographs Collection distribution. the panorama under the camera, pro- at the height of its popularity. Subject is http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ ducing a sequence of exposures that strengths include: agricultural life; pnhtml/pnhome.html For the initial capture and scanning, the represent overlapping segments of the beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More than twenty foreign countries and a few U.S. ter- ritories are also represented. These panoramas average between twenty- eight inches and six feet in length, with an average width of ten inches. The Library of Congress’ large collection of panoramas was formed mainly during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when many photographers submitted copies of their works to the Library for copyright protection. More than four hundred photographers are represented in the collection. In order to faithfully reflect the wide variety of photographic processes represented in the collection, the digital images were copied in color. Mounted panoramas were filmed to show the entire mount. Decades ago, the Library cut many of its panoramas in two or more sections Eleven

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Both the “reassembly” of the used in the display (e.g., panorama in digital the thumbnail reference groups will use the spectacular natural landscape and the charming villages of post-processing, where image) are derived from Provence to capture images of nature, people, and objects. The film will be pro- match lines were identi- this master image. The cessed at a local lab and critiqued by the group to ensure continual improve- fied for each segment, master image is avail- ment. As with all study groups much will be learned from other group partici- the overlap cropped able for download as an pants as well as the instructors. away, and the segments “uncompressed archival blended. The digital tiff.” images were created at The instructors are David Orbock, a fine art panoramic photographer who uses a resolution appropriate Minimal computer a Fuji GX617 and a Hulcherama 360 deg panoramic camera, and Fran Stetina, for video production, e.g., enhancements were who uses a Roundshot 60mm camera and Fuji S2 to produce his the individual segments applied to the archival images. Both instructors are members of the International Association of Pan- were scanned at 560x480 image during the produc- oramic Photographers. . In 1993, the result- tion process. In contrast, ing digital images (both the enhancement called For more information on Picture Provence tours, including prices, accomoda- the assembled whole views and all of sharpening has been applied to the tions and travel arrangements, visit www.pictureprovence.com. the individual segments) were con- reference image and, as a result, it may verted to analog video and copied to look better in some display settings videodisc media. than the archival master. The header of the master image indicates that the file As digital imaging technology and the carries a resolution of 900 dots per inch World Wide Web emerged, the Library (dpi). This represents the approximate launched its’ National Digital Library resolution of the scanning of the 35mm Program project. Many of the previous intermediate copy film. The resolution videodisc collections were repurposed as related to the size of the original Entitled “Playing Boules in Cassis” Dave Orbock created this street scene panorama in for distribution online. In 1996, the prints ranges from approximately 50 to Provense. 35mm copy film produced for the first 100 dpi. The dimensions of each original videodisc was rescanned by another panorama can be found in the biblio- contractor, JJT, Inc., of Austin, Texas. graphic record in the MEDIUM field. Once again, the images for each segment were captured from the film in a com- Phil Michel is a digital conversion coordina- puter-controlled process that tracked the tor in the Prints and Photographs Division information needed for later assembly, of the Library of Congress. He presented with a base capture resolution of about this information at the 2002 International Using the panoramic view of Gordes as a background, Dave Orbock created this panoramic 1000x700 pixels. Once again, the frames Convention. image of a local Provense artist. Twelve Creating Spherical Panoramas for Print By Jook Leung Presented at the: IAPP-WV International Convention on October 9, 2002 My presentation was about my experi- 8mm/2.8 fisheye lenses with the Fujif- For print presentation and display, I top and bottom as a line. Showing this ences in using the for creat- ilm S1 and S2 digital SLRs for the excep- have explored some methods. Remem- image as a print is not always pleasing ing spherical panoramas and methods tional quality that this setup provides. ber with spherical panoramas, there to the eye. to showcase them as gallery prints. The For viewing spherical panoramas over can be infinite points of view the The 4pi photo of Library of Congress response from the Internet I now photographer can extract for his audi- - Jefferson building Great Hall (next Mattendees was use QuickTime’s ence. What this means is, not only can page) is an oval shaped projection, com- fabulous as I CubicVR or Pan- I slide or shift the image left and right monly called a Hammer projection. It is came away with orama Tools’ Java to change my also referred the Best in Show, based PTViewer. composition, I to as a 4Pi First Place in can now also Steradian People and First On this Web page I tilt or roll and image. Just Place in Abstract have photos of the zoom in or as there are print awards. panoramic equip- out my view- 360 degrees ment I use - http: point too! This or 2pi radians I have been shoot- //360vr.com/ gives abil- in a circle, ing and creating Photo of Jook Leung by Ted Thomas. pages/tools.html. ity to derive there are 4pi virtual tours that In my earlier days fascinating Steradians in are viewed electronically on comput- as a photography student, I had experi- points of a sphere so Mercator projection of the surface of Earth ers over the Internet for several years mented with the fisheye lens finding view from this means now. It first started with QuickTime VR them both fascinating and odd. Now I the same that every- where many photographers found tools use them professionally because they source thing in all where they can stitch a series of images continue to give me the fascination and image. directions together into a seamless 360 degree Wow factor. is vis- panorama. I showed ible: front, Instead of stepping back to capture a examples back, left, This fascinating technology diverted scene with conventional wide-angle of this right, up, my commercial photography career into lenses, shooting with a fisheye lens using down). 360° panoramic photography. My first means getting into the middle of a software serious panorama camera was the Seitz scene because everything around you for Adobe (I dis- Roundshot 220VR. Soon after came the will be apart of your picture. This is a Photoshop, cussed the Nikon Coolpix digital camera with its considerable challenge and burden on Helmut Equirectangular photo of Library of Congress - Jefferson building transfor- 180° fisheye adapter that was used for the photographer to compose the image Dersch’s Great Hall mation of iPIX style virtual tours. and demands a lot of previsualization to Panorama equirect- come up with good results. Tools and Flaming Pear’s Flexify. angular to 4Pi Steradian using Pan- This camera (CoolPix 990) has allowed orama Tools software in an earlier article me to train myself to shoot spherical I consider the full spherical 360° pan- The spherical scene information is for IAPP’s Panorama Magazine – Spring VR’s in crowded spaces unencumbered orama the ultimate image format. It is stored in the Psphere or Equirectangu- 2002 issue) by camera rigs. now easily viewed and interactively lar format. Much like how the surface explored on a computer screen and of the Earth is projected onto to a This method of projection is called It has become for me a natural way of delivered over the Internet. Perspective flat surface in a Mercator projection Hyperbolic and is currently my favorite: shooting, enabling capture of the whole is corrected in real time as the viewer (above). Note the large distortions at The hyperbolic space can be described environment quickly before a fleeing moves around or changes his angle of the poles where the zenith and Nadir as an infinite space projected onto a moment is gone. Now I use the Nikkor view. points are now stretched out across the finite volume of space. Thirteen

To see some more Hyperbolic examples tion can be found on my website at: shown by Jook at the 2002 International http://360vr.com/pages/resources.html Convention turn to page 14. http://360vr.com/pages/oil check.html

The views on page 14 are derived using Jook Leung a commercial photographer based a Photoshop plug-in from Flaming in Englewoood, NJ. He has a background in Pear Software called Flexify, which also Photocomposition and Digital photo-illus- does lots of other projections including Hammer. tration. Jook is excited to make 360° pan- oramic images his new playground and has done so for the last 5 years.

Jook’s favorite 360VR images are visually vivid and uniquely conceptual. His strong sense for color, lighting and composition are naturally bound to sneak into his panoramic work.

360VR Studio’s website is 360vr.com and Jook can be reached at [email protected]. What I did not have time to explain was the art of shooting and creating the full Top: A 4pi photo of Library of Congress - Jeffer- spherical equirectangular image. A topic son building Great Hall. I’ll leave for next time. Bottom: Hyperbolic photo of Library of Congress Resources and urls for further informa- - Jefferson building Great Hall

The official address for all IAPP business - including membership renewals - is now: IAPP P.O. Box 1340 Bowie, Maryland 20718 USA

Submissions to Panorama Magazine will remain: Richard Schneider - Panorama Editor P.O. Box 6550 Ellicott City, Maryland 21042 USA Fourteen More Hyperbolic Panoramas By Jook Leung

Photo atop Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder, CO Photo of BMX Core Tour at Pier 17, NYC

This beautiful Will Landon panorama entitled “St. Helena” took first place in the Architecture category at our print competition. Fifteen

My Two New Best Friends or I’m In Love With Annie Morphic By Paul Pasquarello

The above was the original title of a slide presentation by Paul Pasquarello, illus- trating the simultanious use of two cameras, respectively Tequipped with anamorphic lenses.

Paul has been a photogra- pher for the past 40 years. He began as a Fine Art pho- tographer in college, became a photojournalist after grad- uation, and continued as a staff news photographer for the next twenty years. An untimely folding of his newspaper propelled Paul into a busy feelance career, specializing in airial photography and table top catalog work, along with stringing for several magazines. In 1986, an unexpected interesting opportunity presented itself, prompting Paul to make another occupational change to assume the directorship of the Photographic Department of the New York Power Authority.

Paul shared with the audience that he has always been a panoramic photog- rapher; When colleges were purchasing baseball bat size telephoto lenses, he was experimenting with fisheye and swing-lens cameras. He went on to explain that he has always held a fascination for stereo, or 3-D photography. His particular interest in anamorphic lenses emerged from having viewed such a 3-D slide program while attending a conference of the National Ste- reoscopic Association several years ago.

As Paul explained, anamorphic or cinemascope lenses as they are better known, optically compress the horizontal (letter-box) image, to fit more hori- zontal information onto a normal 35mm slide. Later, the process is reversed and the image restored, by being projected through another anamorphic lens which uncompresses the visual information into a wide screen or cinema- scope image.

more on page Sixteen Sixteen Discussion of Digital Panorama Cameras Presented at Photokina and PhotoPlus Tradeshows, September-November 2002

This report discusses the digital pan- imagers or on wide format inkjet print- any hobbyist can do it in their own version successfully for five years. Now orama systems displayed at Photo- ers. The fact that Oce now has an even living room or studio with an $8,000 (November 2002) the newer BetterLight kina 2002 in Cologne Germany. My larger sized Cymbolic Sciences laser Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 5500 at a pano turntable is available from Bet- research institute, FLAAR, has an office light imager makes it all the more whopping 42-inch width and up to 100 terLight. Although BetterLight did not in Cologne so attending Photokina is important to recognize which cameras feet in length (though most pano images exhibit at Photokina, they did have a convenient.T We then took notes on the provide enough dpi to power a printer at 42 inches in height would be only 20 well attended booth at PhotoPlus a few digital pano systems at PhotoPlus Expo of that size. to 30 feet in length before their file size weeks after Photokina. in New York, Nov 1st, 2002. choked even a better computer system). Laser light digital imagers require some- QTVR PHOTOGRAPHY The purpose of the FLAAR program times up to twice the input resolution Although the printing is far more easily This report discusses only those cameras in evaluating panoramic cameras is to as an inkjet print. Thus, it is crucial to done digitally with inkjet such as on which can produce enough resolution prepare lists of which equipment is best find cameras that can supply that much an Encad NovaJet or Hewlett-Packard for a large format enlargement at suited to provide enough true optical resolution. DesignJet (Epson are slow for such size. QTVR images are rarely adequate resolution to output at wide format lengths), the original pano photo- to print at large format sizes, so we sizes, either on Cymbolic Sciences/ By their very nature panoramic photo- graph is still done more easily with a don’t really discuss QTVR here. Besides, Durst Lambda RGB laser light digital graphs beg to be enlarged to mural size. conventional camera and film. This is there are plenty of digital panoramic This is much more easily done digitally partially because most pano photogra- cameras that do seamless continuous than in a darkroom. There is only one phers already have their traditional film panoramas, so there is no need to stitch I’m In Love With Annie Morphic from page Fifteen place in the USA that can handle enlarg- cameras. Digital pano systems did not jerry-rigged individual photos anymore. ing a pano over 10 inches long become widely available until about QTVR is mainly for using on the Web The images that Paul presented from film, but over 2,000 Kinkos or Sir 2001. The software and turntable of the where low 72 dpi monitor resolution is were made as he described, by Speedy outlets nationwide can enlarge BetterLight digital pano, the top of the adequate. Inkjet printers need minimum using two Nikon N-90s cameras your digital pano photograph on inkjet line, was in beta stage until recently. of 120 dpi, an average of 150 dpi, and fitted with 50mm anamorphic media. What used to require an impres- The Dicomed version (1996 onwards) laser imagers prefer 300 dpi. lenses and mounted on a slider bar sive Swiss-made (hand-made), quarter works just fine, as demonstrated by Ste- to maintain their alignment, while million dollar darkroom to phen Johnson’s National Parks project. We do not cover the immersive imaging positioned with a 4 inch separation. handle a pano image on film, nowadays FLAAR has used the same Dicomed systems for the same reason, they are The cameras are triggered simulta- neously using a Nikon MC-23 con- necting cord. The film in all pho- tographs was Kodak Elite Chrome 100, and the slides were projected by Kodak Extra/Bright Ektagraphic projectors, onto a 6’x12’ custom made silver lenticular screen.

Paul indicated that the program he was presenting was a sample cull- ing of five separate wide screen shows, including Buffalo, New Panoramic by Nicholas Hellmuth of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, September, circa 1999, copyright FLAAR. Schneider lens, probably 210mm, York, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Arizona, on 4x5 camera with Dicomed version of BetterLight tri-linear large format panorama system. Photos from this kind of camera can be as well as Spain and France. enlarged to about 40” high by about 17 feet long. The newer generation of digital panorama cameras can produce even larger mural-sized enlargements. Camera courtesy of BetterLight; tripod courtesy of Ries; DesignJet printer courtesy of Hewlett-Packard. Seventeen

mainly for use on the Internet. None- kina states that a digital back is being Lens on the Karline is a fixed focus This has Kodak chip and BetterLight theless we always like anything, such developed together with Rollei. Rollei 13mm with vertical angle of 90 degrees. electronics, custom developed for VR. Is as the Kaidan systems, which offer makes excellent cameras but does not stated to have a number of advantages reliable competition for the unpopular itself have any digital back. Karline Scan software controls basic over Spheron, such as being faster. Out- IPIX system. functions of the camera. There is no puts large rough TIF file. However rather than digress into mention of though Because QTVR only uses 72 dpi for describing other wide angle cameras, perhaps some features are in Karline The original PanoScan (the one with small sizes which are downloadable on most of which are based on traditional Studio. PhaseOne innards) was intended for the Internet, there is not much market, film and darkroom processing, I prefer police work, for interiors of buildings, and even less bandwidth, for a virtual to discuss the current state of digital The Karline system can also be used as to show car interiors for advertising, reality view at higher resolution. panoramic cameras as documented at a rollout camera with the turntable. Step and other practical uses. It is a seamless Photokina 2002 tradeshow, September resolution is 19,991, hence considerably version of QTVR. I saw this camera once WIDE ANGLE CAMERAS 25-30 in Cologne, Germany and then at higher than the panoramic mode but not at a German tradeshow in the PhaseOne Many people begin panoramic pho- PhotoPlus. as flexible as the BetterLight. booth. tography with a wide angle camera. Maybe first 28 mm, then 21 mm. I next DR CLAUSS – KARLINE DIGITAL At present all systems work on AC 230 The PanoScan web site claims “The MK- jumped to the Nikon 15mm for doing PANORAMIC CAMERA SYSTEM V. The demo disk was listed as working 2 is up to four times faster than any digi- interiors of 8th century Maya temples Dr. Clauss Bild- und Datentechnik only in PC with Windows, which makes tal panoramic camera in the world, with and palaces. GmbH has produced the Karline pan- it tough for us to view it with a Macin- a capture rate of up to 194 million pixels oramic camera. tosh. Thus I am presuming the camera per minute. This feature allows the cap- I also experimented in 6 x 12 cm also operates with a PC. ture of people in motion, which makes it rollfilm backs on a 4 x 5 inch camera. The CCD sensor is listed as 2 lines a powerful tool for event documentation Many companies make these backs. I green and Red+Blue per 2048 pixels. Dr Clauss’s system has a notable fea- and tourism, for example.” This would use those of Horseman. If I understand that correctly it is a ture, the Majak panorama lighting. This be a valuable feature. However FLAAR quad-linear CCD instead of a tri-linear would be useful indoors in a room. I do does not have one, nor have we had an I have also used 6 x 17 inch cameras CCD. Of course extra green is because not know how far a distance the lighting opportunity to try one out. such as the Linhof. There are a variety the sees better focus in the will provide serious illumination, but of handmade variants. One had the green channel. certainly for a normal room in a house. KAMERA & SYSTEM TECHNIK back portion of one camera and a front GMBH, KST - EYESCAN portion from another Linhof camera, Color depth is 24 bit RGB which PANOSCAN I have known the principal of EyeScan the Linhof Technikardan, complete means basic 8 bits per color, the tradi- PanoScan was exhibited at Photokina in since first meeting him when he was with bellows. tional minimum. Germany but only in year 2000, in the manager of Noblex (panorama cameras) PhaseOne booth. They were not pres- in Dresden. He has moved on and is A German variant of these dedicated The rotary drive offers 8,333 steps ent at Photokina 2002 in part because now executive of a successful start-up ultra-wide angle cameras is that of Dr per circle. I am assuming this means they no longer have a relationship with company, Kamera & System Technik Gilde. It is not sold in America. This the potential for 8,333 rows. In PhaseOne. The PanoScan would tend GmbH, outside Dresden. camera has more gizmos and varia- comparison, the BetterLight can be set to be exhibited more at tradeshows tions than any others that I know of. to 29,000 pixel rows or even higher, devoted to its own market niches, such Their booth at PMA 2002 showed an Somewhere I remember reading that keeping in mind that Photoshop can as law enforcement, security, car interi- enlargement about 20 inches high by one Gilde variation can handle up to 23 handle only up to 30,000 pixel rows. In ors, etc. perhaps 10 to 12 feet in length. So this cm of film. other words, BetterLight can produce camera can definitely produce wide an image of higher resolution than Nonetheless, PanoScan is alive and even The Dr Gilde brochure from Photo- Photoshop can open. is preparing a new camera, the MK-2. more on page Eighteen Eighteen

Discussion of Digital Panorama Cameras from page Eighteen format inkjet printer The EyeScan MM1 125 degrees. Cameras of this sort are their company is growing internation- output. KST exhibited at has a 28mm lens. The used to photograph groups (same as ally. I have seen their latest version Photokina 2000 and again camera produces a 250- the old banquet cameras of the 19th at Photokina 2002. FLAAR does not in 2002. 280 MB file. century). FLAAR does not cover this have their model so we are unable to class of camera. comment further on it other than to say The entire system comes in KST also makes soft- that its file size is larger than several a single carrying case. You ware to eliminate EyeScan exhibited at both Photokina of the other systems such as ePan. I remove the camera to set panoramic distortion, and PhotoPlus as well. This suggests would estimate that the BetterLight has it up; the computer resides VHLReal. Some other the company is doing well. the largest file size of all, so that’s the inside the carrying case. pano camera companies best for reproducing at mural size with may also make com- SEITZ ROUNDSHOT large format inkjet printers. The on-board computer parable software. This Seitz is known worldwide for high has advantages and dis- particular product by precision panorama cameras. I have the The original camera was the Spheron advantages. Advantage is KST was made for the last of the versatile 70mm-220 rollfilm PanoCam. As is typical with a turnkey that the entire system is German space research Super Roundshot. system, the camera itself has few con- self-contained. Downside institute. trols; everything is in the software. is that if you keep your Seitz now has a new digital camera, camera 5 years the associ- KST also makes a pho- their Super Digital II. I like the fact that The SperoCam operates with a fisheye ated computer is obsolete togrammetric camera, it accepts Leica R lenses. lens. in two years. Foveon did the EyeScan M3 metric. not survive this difficulty Costs 45,000 euros. You It was my impression that they had a The SpheroCam HDR, gives a high with their tethered on- have to provide your new digital camera at Photokina but dynamic range of 26 f-stops. In a few board computer. ePan is a own after-market pho- if so there was no brochure that I got. respects you could tweak these your- digital pano system which togrammetric software. Since I do not have any Seitz digital self with Adobe Photoshop if your also had a self-contained This also was made in camera I am not able to comment on original image was good. But the computer. Again, their conjunction with the how it functions compared with the Spheron software allows it to be done system failed in the market German Aerospace BetterLight. semi-automatically. place. KST, in distinc- Center, so you can tion, is a larger German expect typical German SPHERON Since Spheron is a German company company with many technical capabilities. The first time I saw the Spheron with its own software engineers, it is partners and allies. They camera, at Photokina 1998, it was a no surprise that they have additional will unlikely fail or even One advantage of these non-functioning prototype of several imaging software features. wither. dedicated turnkey sys- graduate students from the technical tems is that the nodal university of Dresden, Germany. The Spheron brochure is by far the The company behind Eye- point of the lens is pre- most sophisticated of any of the camera Scan is operated by people cisely where it should Then at a subsequent trade show in companies. who are both technically be. If you have a system Germany, Photokina 2000, the camera competent and know busi- with interchangeable was functioning, though the inkjet DICOMED ness reality as well. Their lens, it’s tough to find print had terrible banding (hopefully Dicomed re-packaged early versions other products sell into the the precise nodal point. from the Mutoh piezo printer rather of the BetterLight, vintage 1996-1998. market for security cam- than from the camera scan system). Approximately four panoramic turn- eras so the income from KST also has a 120 size tables were made. Stephen Johnson that subsidizes the digital rollfilm camera with a The graduate students are now long is the best known photographer to pano system. fixed picture angle of ago graduated into the real world and have one. FLAAR also has this model, Nineteen

indeed this is the camera we have used • One of the few systems where you timate the nodal point. Usually there is If you are a landscape photographer to photograph: can count on constant updates in hard- no instruction manual on this aspect. then BetterLight is a tried and proven • Lake Atitlan in Guatemala ware and software ePan takes up to an 86 MB image. system for doing large blowups. • Antigua Spanish colonial architecture The BetterLight is deliberately not a Overall, I rate the ePan as the best Digital is clearly the way to go because • Farm fields in the Ozarks turnkey system. This means you can thought out digital panoramic camera. you can print the images yourself at • Lakes and house scenes in the Ozarks mix and match lenses, cameras, and A potential downside is its on-board any size. We have a ColorSpan printer • Streams in the Ozarks other aspects of the hardware. You can computer. An onboard computer which can reproduce 72” by however use the hardware to set exposure and adds about $2,000 or more to the cost. long you have resolution to fill. No BETTERLIGHT other aspects. Naturally the software However, with the ePan, the significant darkroom enlarger can do that. The BetterLight is the first digital also is powerful, with many options. advantage of an on-board computer is pano system to be developed (circa no cables, nothing tethered. This is the If you do panoramic photography as a 1995, used by Stephen Johnson for his So if your intent is to create mural- most portable of all the digital pan- hobby second business, or retirement National Parks project). It has taken sized large format inkjet prints, Better- oramic cameras I have seen so far. business you can use a 24” Epson 7600 seven years to bring the system to Light can provide the resolution in the or 42” HP 5000 to print at home or in market. The Pano/WideView turntable, true optical dpi that you need. FLAAR Downside of tethered cameras is lack your studio. software, and system are now avail- has enlarged one image to about 5 feet of spontaneity. Setting up other sys- able. FLAAR has been a beta tester high and over 20 feet long. That was tems requires a table for the computer, WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A DIGI- primarily for the turntable variant of from the Dicomed prototype; an image and in reality requires an assistant. I TAL PANO CAMERA? this system (described on all our Web from the newer BetterLight system usually use a GMC Suburban to cart First: will the company survive long sites under Maya vase rollouts or just should be even better and bigger. mine around, with a Kart-a-Bag that enough to provide tech support? rollouts). However, we also do pan- doubles as a clever table. Downside of oramic photography with this camera. We have used the BetterLight Super any on-board computer is that they get Will the company survive long enough The results are impressive, not due to 6000 to do panos of our university obsolete fast. so your camera still holds value in our own abilities, but largely a result of campus future years in case you wish to sell it? the technology from the crew at Better- As with other product classes, no one ePan is a good example of a company Light: Michael Collette, Robin Myers, EPAN single camera has all the optimal fea- which never really got off the ground, Larry Guyer, and others. The ePan system has the best lens cover tures, but ePan is close. I hope they sur- a shame, since it was a great camera. of any. But it appears this company and vive and reproduce, however evidently The BetterLight system differs in many its product have not survived. Their the company no longer exists. Second: who writes the software? key respects from all others: Web site is frozen with a last year’s Rarely it is the camera company itself; date: http://epan.net. SUMMARY Spheron may be an exception. But even • The only digital panoramic system I have used a number of panoramic if the camera inventor himself does not based on a large format camera That is the problem with hand-made cameras such as the Seitz, the Dicomed, write the software, are they software • One of the few systems that uses cameras; a single individual designs and the BetterLight. At two Photokina savvy? This would be the case with large format lenses from Schneider and these as an expression of his personal trade shows I have looked carefully at BetterLight. Michael Collette knows Rodenstock capability. But no matter how capable all the others. digital imaging inside out, as do the • Offers the highest resolution system, these products are, often they do not people at Spheron and KST. because it is large format survive the real world marketplace. If you need a camera for security sur- • The only component system; its not a veillance or other QTVR needs, then An extension of the software aspect is, locked, tethered, turnkey system. The ePan also is clever enough to rotate PanoScan or Spheron are options. “how often is the software updated?” • The only system that does not burden their system on the exact nodal point. If the camera developer simply pays you with a dedicated camera and its With other systems, including Better- If you need an industrial strength pho- cost Light, the individual user has to gues- togrammetric system, then KST. more on page Twenty Twenty

Discussion of Digital Panorama Cameras Special to Panorama Magazine from page Nineteen Nevada Wide: Panoramic Photography of the Silver State an outside company to do the software, By Barbara Slivac, Curator of Education Nevada State Museum and Historical Society there may be few, if any updates. With BetterLight there are new software Writing about panoramic photography ultra-wide, composite panorama. displayed with the camera. improvements every few months. for an audience well-versed in this art is intimidating, particularly since I am one Three historic panoramic cameras A Kodak Panoram #4 “B” sits in Third: how flexible is the system? of those people capable of taking blurry from the collection of the Nevada State another case with its curved Are the lenses interchangeable? Is it a pictures, no matter how good the camera. Museum in Carson City, each of the exposed. The largest camera on exhibit turnkey system where the user can not WHowever, as the museum educator, this swing lens type, are featured in the is a custom made Hemispheric Camera make any changes? exhibit was another opportunity to learn. exhibit. Perched on an antique tripod, owned and used by photographer P.E. As I put together information for the the 1906 AL-VISTA Panoramic Camera Larson of Goldfield, a central Nevada Fourth: what about picture quality? museum’s student and adult audiences, I has a clockwork motor which allows mining town founded in 1902. It Digital noise, pixellation, and poor learned about the history of cameras and the lens to sweep the unexposed film in required a negative 34 inches long by are all problems to be picture taking. I was surprised at the a 145 degree arc. The small metal fans 10 inches wide. The swing lens, a “no. wary of. rapid development of panoramic photog- which matched the exposure time to 3 hemispheric rapide,” was turned by a raphy and cameras. It seems that after the film and the light intensity are hand crank through an arc to obtain the Fifth: Lighting for interiors? The Dr the invention of photography wide-angle exposure. Larson Clauss system and the KST EyeScan in 1839, panoramic views of produced a large volume of each have their own independent landscapes and cities were a Nevada photographs out of his system of illumination which travels natural next step. Goldfield based Palm Studio. together with the camera head. Obvi- ously you can jerry rig your own The earliest photograph in The variety of photographs and manner of lighting, but when you are Nevada Wide is an historic subjects in the exhibit deserves under pressure it sure is easier to have 1876 view of Virginia City shot mention. The smallest pan- a turnkey lighting solution. by pioneer panorama pho- orama measures 23 inches wide tographer Carleton Watkins. and the largest 12 feet. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This photographer of Yosemite subjects include aerial views, I thank Michael Collette for providing photographed the Comstock including one of Reno taken in me first a Dicomed and then a Better- in the 1870s after the mining 1908 from the Lawrence “Cap- Light turntable system to do rollouts of region was populated with tive Airship,” actually a train of the circumferences of Maya funerary people and towns from the Nevada Wide: Panoramic Photography of the Silver linked kites attached to a swing vases. Since the same camera also does discovery which made Nevada State opened to the public at the Nevada State Museum lens camera with a 130 degree excellent panoramas, a FLAAR team the “silver state.” In this three and Historical Society in Las Vegas on August 24, 2002 . has gone out on location when time section panorama, we see and will run through March 23, 2003. Thirty-four pan- allowed. I thank Ries Tripods for pro- houses climbing the hillsides, oramic format images reveal views of places and people from A panorama of all the elemen- viding the wooden tripods, Ron Wisner waste rock piles next to mines Nevada’s past. The Nevada Historical Society, Reno, origi- tary students from Robert for providing a very portable wooden and mills, hotels and busi- nally developed this exhibit from their collections and those Mitchell School in Sparks posed 4x5 camera. We especially appreci- nesses, and a home with laun- of the Nevada State Museum in Carson City which provided in elaborate costumes in front ate the assistance of Bogen Photo for dry on the line—the clarity of the cameras on exhibit. Las Vegas area photographs were of the school left me wonder- providing Gitzo tripods and Manfrotto the detail in this photograph is added from the collections of the Nevada State Museum and ing about the occasion. Because tripod heads this year. incredible. Watkins perfected Historical Society in Las Vegas. Except for major holidays, the school still exists, a phone the technique of wide-angle the museum is open daily from 9 am until 5 pm. Admission call revealed that the picture I thank Peter Lorber and the Seitz photography, as well as the is $2 for adults with museum members and children under should be labeled “Jack’s Carni- brothers for encouraging me to get into method of combining several 18 years of age admitted free. val, 1927.” This school held an panorama photography to begin with. bird’s-eye views into a single annual funding-raising carnival Twenty-one

for almost 70 years starting in 1924 with in full regalia give testimony to the dura- photographer N.E. Johnson in 1928, and 22 inch high film, were produced carnival booths based on fairy tales and bility of organizations and interesting only a few children couldn’t stand still. under the “Sheelor Photo Company” children’s stories. Princesses and flow- uniforms. A Nevada Transcontinental The picture of Weepah, where the 1927 and “The National View Company” of ers, birds and bugs, frogs and several Highway Exposition held in 1926 has all gold rush lasted about one year, shows a Sisson, California. He claimed to oper- unknown characters are seen in this pan- the men assembled in a Reno park look- few wooden structures and tents neatly ate the “largest panoramic machines in orama, with the exact stories which gave ing up and saluting the photographer laid-out on the “streets.” the world.” Tonopah, one of Nevada’s them life remaining a mystery. with hats held high. (From a distance, it most durable mining sites, was pho- seems they are waving giant donuts.) Some of the mining towns were more tographed by Sheelor and also by Because wide format prints were a popu- durable and their photographs more the anonymous photographers of the lar way of recording people, we can see Nevada mines, mills, and mining towns, spectacular. The 12 foot wide image of California Panorama Co. and the West Nevada’s 54 State Legislators ranged many now abandoned, were also popu- Tonopah, possibly the world’s largest Coast Art Co. Thirty-five Nevada pan- before the state capitol building in 1919. lar panorama subjects. The men, women historic panorama, was taken in 1913 oramas from these companies can be And standing on the Virginia Street and children of Wahomie, a short-lived by Floyd W. Sheelor. His panoramas, seen at the American Memory section bridge in Reno, a group of 1920s Shriners boom town, all turned out for panorama shot with a custom made camera using of the Library of Congress website, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ panPlaces08.html.

Las Vegas was also the subject of one of those anonymous West Coast Art Co. photographers whose work was copy- righted in 1910. One of these panora- mas, on exhibit in the museum, is also one of the four views of Las Vegas on the Library of Congress website. Our city today is in rapid growth mode, but in 1910 it was a five year old railroad town surrounded by desert and alfalfa fields with its distinctive mountain Rose and Pamers freight team with load of provisions for Beatty, 1904 • Photograph by Jack Ramsey, Las Vegas ranges in the distance. The city’s 1980 The photographer captured the first provisions being taken to Beatty when town started in 1904. Nevada’s photographers were eager to record such “firsts” Jubilee photograph seen here portrays in the growth of new towns. Symbolic of community pride, these photographs could be sold to the towns’ promoters and citizens as well as to tourists. another phase of city growth, the one before the latest explosion of subdivi- sions and communities.

The more time I spend looking at these remarkable panorama photographs, the more I appreciate the power of the camera. The images in the exhibit tes- tify to the documentary nature of the work of the early photographers and Las Vegas Diamond Jubilee, 1980 • Photograph by Bob Paluzzzi the history they recorded. And some of This 1980 view of Las Vegas was taken from the top of the Union Plaza Hotel. It is the official Diamond Jubilee photo of Las Vegas. them are more than documents. Twenty-two Sandison Exhibit Takes the Wider View WHATCOMMUSEUM Special to Panorama Magazine • Contact: Annette Bagley (360) 676-6981 ext. 320 OF HISTORY & ART - 121 Prospect St., Bellingham, WA 98225

The familiar brown pleats and warm, Sandison was especially fond of unusual eration of immigrants had cleared the one of very few active Cirkut camera wooden frame of a vintage Cirkut perspectives, and “new” technology. He land to build this new community, and photographers in the Northwest. camera and tripod beckon visitors into purchased a No. 6 Cirkut camera in the current residents enjoyed a thriving the space. Immediately, their heads 1909 and employed it to make downtown. Another popular Sandison A computer within the exhibit make a slow rotation from left panoramic photographs of image captures nearly a hundred chil- also allows access to digital pan- Tto right as they find themselves the city’s skyline and down- dren dressed up for a Charlie Chaplin ormas of Bellingham as currently immersed in a wall-sized pan- town intersections as well look-a-like contest. seen on the world wide web at oramic photograph, circa 1909. as shipyards, tulip farms, www.tourbellingham.com. On Sunday, carnivals, group portraits Tracing the development of panoramic Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. Jonathan Jackson of The photographer was James and more. The camera was photography over the course of a cen- Macado Media, which created the web- Wilbur Sandison, whose indus- able to rotate 360 degrees tury, the exhibition also features color site, will discuss the use of virtual real- trious career in Bellingham, WA and expose a negative four panoramas of the 1990s, including Open- ity technology and its varied uses on spanned more than half a century. feet long. Sandison also fre- ing Day at Safeco Field by Tacoma pho- the web today. He arrived at this northwestern port quently employed a Banquet tographer Ron Karabaich. On Sunday, community in 1904, the same year the camera using 7-by-17-inch negatives. Jan. 26 at 2 p.m., Karabaich will dem- The Whatcom Museum of History & Cirkut camera was patented. Sandison onstrate his own vintage Cirkut camera Art, located at 121 Prospect St. in Bell- immediately set up a portrait and com- Taking the Wider View chronicles early and show panoramas from other Wash- ingham, features a vast photographic mercial studio in Bellingham, where he 20th century American life in the North- ington state photographers, including archives. The Museum’s collection worked until 1962. During that time, he west as seen through these fascinating Aldrich, Bolen, and Pickett. Karabaich is includes more than 6,000 original became widely known throughout the photographs. A digital re-print reaching a member of the International Associa- Sandison negatives, which are noted for region for the high quality of his pho- 20-feet in length brings to life Sandison’s tion of Panoramic Photographers and their clarity and content. tography and for his ability to create art image of Bell- from otherwise ordinary scenes. ingham’s main For additional information about Taking thoroughfare in the Wider View: J.W. Sandison’s Pan- Today his work is the focus of the new 1909, complete oramic Photographs of Bellingham, call the exhibition, Taking the Wider View: J.W. with horse-drawn Whatcom Museum at (360) 676-6981 or Sandison’s Panoramic Photographs of carriages and log on to www.whatcommuseum.org. Bellingham, currently on display at the early versions of Regular Museum hours are Tuesday Whatcom Museum of History & Art the automobile. through Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Admis- through Feb. 23, 2003. The previous gen- sion is free. Twenty-three Special to Panorama Magazine Things Panoramic from the Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Behring Center By Shannon Perich

In 1896, the Smithsonian officially sanctioned the earliest panoramas in the collection a “Section of Photography” that would are William Henry Fox Talbot’s 1848 Read- evolve into today’s Photographic History ing Establishment and the five full-plate Collection (PHC) at the National view of Rincon Museum of American History Hill, San Francisco, California, I(NMAH). The subject matter 1851 by William Shew. The 1845 collected by PHC is the history and 1852 Friedrich von Martens figure 3 of photography. PHC represents drawings for French camera pat- photographs and photographic ents enlighten his views of Paris apparatus (including some (figure 4). motion picture) that documents the ways in which American Evidence of government invest- have made, used, produced, been ments in Cold War technology influenced by, sold, collected is found in the Perkin-Elmer and generally interacted with collection of high and low alti- figure 4 photography. PHC maintains tude aerial photographs of San about 200,000 photographs and Francisco, New York City and 15,000 pieces of apparatus. The the 1964 World’s Fair. A little collection of panoramic materi- closer to San Francisco’s hills are als, although relatively small photographs by Gene Wright figure 1 compared to some other col- that include the Bay Bridge and lections, spans the history of the interior of a apartment. photography. A well known former IAPP member, Jack Rankin, is Among the panoramic appa- also represented in the col- ratus collection are an 1848 lection. His long thin views patent model for a daguerre- show atmospheric Wash- otype panoramic camera ington, DC scenes. figure 5 (figure 1); professional and In the 1960s and 1970s, art amateur cameras, like the figure 2 Cirkut and Al-Vistas cam- photographers embraced eras; hand-crafted cameras the format of panoramic by Frederick Mueller (figure 2); and cameras photography to expand their tools of expres- with wide angle lenses. sion. Some artists like Anne Noggle (figure 5) and Jim Alinder play with the enlongated, In addition to straight-forward landscapes, convex views to push subjects closer to the PHC holds a range of panoramic photo- viewer. graphs that explore various techniques, uses and processes of the format such as, hand- The most recent collecting has included coloring, studies for illustrations, infrared, IAPP member Stephen Delroy’s views of postcards, time-exposures, and digital pho- figure 6 tography and printing (figure 3). Among more on page Twnety-four Twenty-four

Things Panoramic from the Photographic History Collection from page Twenty-three Self-Publishing Your Own Photo Book By Peter E. Randall Ground Zero; the Armory Wall, NYC are due equal notice such as the stun- by Diane Dubler and John Taylor; ning eight-foot long albumen views of Many photographers would like to have for this service, or, if you are handy with and by Judith the Wisconsin Dells by H.H. Bennett a book of their own photographs, but computers and Photoshop, you could Vejvoda (figure 6). and the expansive Western landscapes the odds on getting a trade publisher to do your own scans. Excellent medium of William Henry Jackson. To find out take on your book are slim unless you format scanners can be bought for under PHC and the Smithsonian Institution more about the Photographic His- have a name as a photographer. But $3,ooo and you could easily spend far Libraries have a number of books, tory Collection, please contact me at you can publish your own book and more than that to get professional scans. pamphlets, trade literature, camera [email protected]. M make more money doing it than a trade instruction manuals and reference publisher would pay you. This article Since the design of the book impacts materials to support researching Shannon Perich is a Museum Specialist will outline some of the considerations the costs, it is wise to establish the the photographic and apparatus in the Photographic History Collection at involved with book publishing and specifications for the book (page size, collections. the Smithsonian Institution’s National provide suggestions on how to do your number of images and pages, number Museum of American History. She pre- own book. of copies) before doing a final layout. There are many other photographers sented the material above at the 2002 Inter- This means contacting printers with whose works were not discussed but national Convention. Subject matter is the first consideration. your specifications to get prices And A book of “my favorite photographs” sugg4stions on formats. Solme printers Buy, Sell and Trade...Free ads for IAPP members probably will not sell well unless you are more flexible as to size than others. have a “a name” as a photograper. A Also make sure that your proposed page SERVICES: Drum scanning. Optical reso- FOR SALE: Fuji GX 617 Camera Body, defined place such as New Hampshire, size is an economical size to print. lutions up to 4000 dpi. Quick turnaround. Fuji 90mm F5.6 lens with center spot filter Glacier Park, or Central Park is easier Contact: Russell Davis, 303-828-3933, and viewfinder, Fuji 180mm F6.7 lens sell as a book because you can target I have found that for color books the less [email protected] with viewfinder. Fuji focusing screen. the marketing to a specific area. Book expensive printers are in Asia. You can Comes in Tenba case. All in perfect shape. buyers who don’t know you will still find printers on the internet and many SERVICES: Gears cut - 49 pitch and 32 $6500.00 U.S. Dollars. Please contact the buy the book because they know the of them have U. S. sales representives. pitch, 14 1/2 degree pressure angle gears Albert at 604-939-7777 (British Columbia, subject. Ask to sample books and get references. with any number of teeth. Less than 50 Canada) or teeth - $25, 50 to 125 teeth - $35, over 125 [email protected] Canadian printers are also an otion. teeth - by quote. Gears are fitted with The book’s design has an impact on shafts or hubs made to customers mea- FOR SALE: Imacon 828 - One auto feeder sales as well as publishing costs. Go to A paperbound book is less expensive surements. Ron Klein, Northernlight, 1208 and about 20 film holders. Never used a book store and look at photography to produce, but cloth bound books sell Pike Court, Juneau AK 99801-9549. Roundshot 220 VR with books and find a design that you think for more and many people like to buy 907-780-6248 or [email protected]. adator and extra battery. Never used is appropriate for your photographs. clothbound books as gifts. For small Roundshot 28/220. I purchased all of Keep in mind that the page size, number quantities it is probably not economical SERVICES: All cirkut camera services. this in the last several months and the of images, and the number of pages has to do both cloth and paper editions. Gears cut, focal lengths measured, repairs, condition is exactly as new...Everything in an impact on costs. parts made. Stanley Stern, 813-920-4863. original boxes... Bruce Freund. 305 576-7400 (Florida). You can probably figure that the book FOR SALE: Noblex, 150 - Excellent Con- If you have never designed a book will have its best sales the first year so dition, Make Offer. 402-721-7975 WANT TO BUY, SELL OR TRADE? consider hiring a designer or a book to get a reasonable per unit cost figure Richard Rader - Fremont, Nebraska It’s free for IAPP Members! producer to put the book together. One on a print run of at least 3,000 copies. Just send your ad to: of these professionals can probbly give You’ll have a number of one time costs FOR SALE: Seitz Roundshot Super 35 Richard Schneider advice about costs and other aspects of that have to be amortized over the first Panorama Editor with Pan-tilt head, Nikon 105mm, 50mm publishing. printing so plan to do enough books to and 28mm lenses, and extra battery. P.O. Box 6550, Ellicott City Maryland, 21042, USA. give you a reasonable cost per book. Asking price: $4900. 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The cover shot, a Hyperbolic panorama by Jook Leung entitled “A Tribute of Light”, won “Best of Show” in the print competition at the 2002 IAPP International Convention. For more information and pictures of this tech- nique see page Twelve.