From: tklai@acsu.buffalo.edu (Tobysze K. Lai)
Newsgroups: rec.photo
Subject: Re: "Panoramic option" for Maxxum 7xi & 9xi
Date: 28 Jan 93 03:32:03 GMT
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In article <1993Jan27.181243.633@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.192148.1176@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
>> In <1993Jan26.214602.23354@news.media.mit.edu> wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
>> 
>> >The "panoramic option" is just a little matte that goes in the back of the  
>> >camera, over the shutter.  Costs about $30.  I have it for my 9xi and have
>> >had a lot of fun with it.
>> 
>> The only thing the matte really does is make it obvious to the print
>> machine operator that you want panoramic format.  I imagine, if the lab
>> were friendly enough, one could simply say, "Please print frames x, y,
>> and z as panoramas.".
>> 
>> Indeed, it should be very easy to say, "Please print the whole roll in
>> panoramic format.", without need for a matte at all.  The only problem
>> is composing in the viewfinder.  If you have a matte with grid screen,
>> or have an A2/E with the matte focusing screen with panorama lines, it
>> should be easy.
>> 
>
>Indeed it should be easy and the phot lab should be able to make such prints,
>but in the real world (from what I have heard) they won't do it. I'm sure
>they have their reasons and maybe there are even good technical reasons why
>it would be difficult (can't think of any off hand). If you, or anyone else
>actually knows of a lab that will make "panoramic" prints from regular 35mm
>negatives then I think it would be of general interest. It's worth checking
>that it can be done before going out and shooting a roll of "panoramas".
>Of course you could always get 8x12 prints made and cut them down if you
>had to.
>
>===============================================================
>Bob Atkins  AT&T Bell Labs  email (direct)  att!clockwise!rma
>===============================================================

From the 1-hour lab I have been working during school holidays, I've only seen
the "panoramic" prints taken by those disposable camera (from Kodak?).  The
actual picture doesn't take the whole size of the 35mm negative, the top and
bottom edges will be blanked out.  If someone wish to make the prints on 
the regular 3.5" x 5" paper, while borders will appear on the top and 
bottom edges (about 0.5 inch for the width of the edge).  If the whole "picture
area" is to be printed out (no while edges), the print has to be made on
a 3.5" x 10" paper.  This is what my boss told me.  I've only seen the 3.5" x
5" prints, not the 3.5" x 10".


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