Turning a 4-megapixel camera into a 6-megapixel

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Chuck_Snyder
Jun 3, 2004
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I’m sure lots of other people have done this, but I had an "AHA!" recently about doing ‘panoramas’: if you want a picture with ‘normal’ aspect ratio, instead of holding the camera in landscape orientation, hold it in portrait. Then a 2272 pixels high x1704 pixels wide image can be stitched/merged to adjacent images to give a 2272 by 3000 or even 4000 composite. Not great for action photos, but terrific for landscapes. Works particularly well with Canon’s Photostitch (the only decent program in the Canon package); haven’t tried Elements Photomerge for a side-by-side. Lots of pixels to work with – yeah! Also works better with exposure ‘locked’ to the same values across all images that are merged.

Chuck
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Mark_Reibman
Jun 3, 2004
In one of my photography books is an example of photostitching in portrait mode and I keep forgetting to try it. But that’s a really cool realization about making it into the equivalent of a 6 megapixel camera.

Hmmm… I want to try that with my new S410.

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