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Panoramic
Photography
Welcome to
Digital Studio
From beautiful
enormous high definition panoramas of the Moosehead Lake Maine
region to reproduction prints of the old postcards, both regular and
panoramic I strive to make the most of this new digital
photographic technology with which we have been blessed. I started
doing photography the old fashioned way back in the early 60's so I
totally enjoy the speed and awesome capability of this combination
of computers, digital cameras and fabulous Epson archival printers.
My newest digital endeavor is restoring old photos whether from old
negatives or directly from the photo itself. Please feel free to
contact me for any of these services, and enjoy my site.
I shoot my
photos using a Nikon Coolpix 8800 8 megapixel camera. This is a
rugged, lightweight, technologically advanced body sporting a 35-350
mm lens with a 10x mechanical and 4x digital zoom that renders clear
images at full power due to the built in image stabilizer. This is
one digital zoom that you don't have to turn off. I have had
occassion to jump off my snowmobile at 65 mph rushing to an accident
scene with this camera strapped over my shoulder, bounced 30 feet at
a time and have taken 100s of photos since with no ill effects to
the 8800. While not a true SLR you get the same wysiwyg results at a
fraction the cost (about 1/3 the cost of an equal SLR body/lens
combo). I have compared the two side by side and at 1/3 the size and
weight I could see no difference in results. There is no way the
larger camera could have survived that fall. I have since added a
10.2 megapixel Nikon D200 professional camera to the herd for even
better results on these large pictures. Soon we hope to purchase a
24" Epson printer as well so as to take full advantage of the D200's
capability.
For the editing
computer I use an ASUS AMD64 with 2 gig of Ram from eCollege PC. For
a printer I use the Epson Pro 4800 Ultra Chrome K#3. This
combination is stable and fast and will handle these giant (up to
17"H x 16 foot long) prints in stride. The K3 inks are dry and water
resistant (as well as 100 yr. rated) as the print emerges. I can
also now laminate any of the prints I produce as getting glass in
the long sizes is prohibitive.
Jim Fisk,
Photographer
Call Digital Studio
at (207) 534-7212 today
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