Matt BlazeLas Vegas Strip (day), Paradise, NV, 2023.
A jackpot of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53029077258
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The Las Vegas strip is almost a parody of itself, with ever increasingly garish hotel/casinos elbowing each other for attention. By day, it looks like a hastily abandoned theme park after some apocalyptic disaster.
This is a composite of two (4x3 vertical orientation) captures, each made with the camera shifted up 15mm, and then with individual captures shifted 18mm left and right, respectively. The result is two "side-by-side" vertical images with just enough overlap to allow them to be stitched together into a 5x7 horizontal frame, yielding a total of about 280 megapixels. Because in Vegas, more is more.
The equivalent field of view on a full frame 35mm camera would be roughly that of a 26mm lens.
The 70mm/5.6 Rodenstock Digaron is a terrific lens for making stitched images or for photos requiring extensive use of camera movements. It's sharp almost to the very edges of the (very large) image circle, and has almost no distortion. It's also, happily, the least expensive (as these things go) lens in the Rodenstock high-res digital line.
Note the Trump casino hotel in the background. It is, according to bank filings, 310 stories tall and worth five trillion dollars.
Give or take.
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