• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    2 months ago

    Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W (@ f/6.3 lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, and Phase One XT camera. Composite of two shifted images (+/- 12mm from center horizontally, -12mm vertically).

    Officially, “House of the Temple, Headquarters of the Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington DC”. The local Masonic temple, museum, library, and, I’m told, a gift shop. I was assured that no human sacrifices are performed there.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      2 months ago

      This is a stitched composite of two captures made from the same position, using horizontal shift movements to get a wider field of view on either side. This was really the only way to capture this building from in front of a tree that would otherwise have obstructed the facade, while also keeping its geometry undistorted. The final result is roughly the angle of view of a 14mm lens (in 35mm full frame terms), with a total of about 190 megapixels in the combined frame.

      • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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        2 months ago

        I used the 32mm Rodenstock here. I could have just barely squeezed this into a single frame with the wider-angle 23mm, except that the 23 doesn’t have a large enough image circle to accommodate the vertical shift needed to keep the vertical lines from converging. The 32 has a much larger image circle, and so stitching with it yields a wider angle of view than I could obtain with the 23 (which allows only much more limited movements). More pixels this way, too.