August 24, 1998

August 24, 1998 - Monday

All images have been reduced to a low resolution. Click on any image to see it's high resolution image.

I spent the morning chasing down jobs. Then in the afternoon when the cable guy finally showed up he figured out he couldn't install the cable. Then it started raining so apartment hunting was out of the question. What to do?

Play with my new toy of course! So I whipped out the CD that came with the camera and loaded it into the laptop. This is the first time I've tried to do a panoramic shot consisting of multiple photos.

I loaded the software and read through the tutorial on how to take panoramic photos so they stich together well. The software with the camera is called QuickStitch from Enroute.

I didn't hold much hope out for the software to actually work. It seems like it would be a technically difficult thing to stitch together several photos. Especially as I am using the SHQ mode of the Olympus D-600L which produces >800k image files.

I followed the instructions as for taking the photographs. Here you can see the 4 photos I took together in order to put the final panorama.

It was hard to take photographs while no movement was occuring on either the El train or the streets. But I tried my best.

And you can see I didn't go exactly straight across in my 4 seperate photographs. And when I saw this I kinda thought it was going to be a disaster of a panorama stitch. Well, hopefully the stitching software wouldn't hang up my machine and force me to do the red-button reboot.

I set up the various photos into their appropriate grids in the QuickStitch software. Clicked on the 'stitch' button and decided to look through the newspaper at apartment rental adverts. The process to stitch the photos together did not take as long as I thought it would have. Mind you, I had nothing else running except for the QuickStitch software.

After a couple of minutes...

Can you believe how good this looks?! (about 565k if you click on it)

I was simply amazed. I never would've thought that the panorama would come out as well as it did. And even without taking each photo across an even line the software still managed to stitch the 4 photographs together in an amazingly great fashion. So, my afternoon's failure to find an apartment turned out to have been a blessing to see how the panorama fit together! Hope you enjoyed today's page.

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