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Indofunk:
A few years ago, I had the idea to use my Holga WPC (wide pinhole camera), which shoots 6x12 images natively, to create full 360o panoramas. What I do is to take a photo, then advance the film half of a frame (6"), rotate the camera 90o to the right (or the left, but I think I always go clockwise), take another photo, advance half a frame, etc. Four of those gives me 360o coverage, with every frame except the first half and the last half being double exposed. It works really well with pretty uniform scenes, and looks funky/cool/weird with uneven, city scenes. Here's the first one I took, on top of Mount Beacon, with our very own Andrej assisting me by timing my exposures:



And here are a few more that I've done since then. As you can see, some work well, some don't work quite so well, but they can all be stared at for quite a while :D


Taken on the roof of my apartment building


A sculpture garden in my neighborhood, taken on a cloudy day, so conveniently any people in the shot are erased by their own movement :D


Union Square farmer's market


Grand Central Station (you can see where I used my cellphone as a timer and to steady the camera for the 7-minute exposure ;) )


Bryant Park. So, I metered this at 400 (it's XP2), then my sister called and I was speaking to her while doing this whole 360 thing. Being distracted, and having just shot the GCT photo above, instead of exposing each frame for 2 seconds, I exposed each for 2 minutes. As you can clearly see, film don't care ;D


Bryant Park redo of the above on expired Ektachrome because I thought no way would the XP2 shot come out ;D


Times Square. I'm pretty sure tripods are not allowed in Times Square, but there were two cops drinking coffee and eating donuts right next to me and they didn't seem to care. Also proves that tourists are the only type of people that can stay still for minutes in a row.

All photos are clickable to larger, scrollable versions, and I apologize for making your browser load up all of the full sized images in this thread ;D

cs1:
Satish, I absolutely love those shots! I've been trying to get some shots similar to yours with my Altissa Periskop, however, you're the master, that's for sure. Great job, thanks for sharing! :)

hookstrapped:
Very Cool!

Jeff Warden:
WOW!!!  Satish I love these!

Sandeha Lynch:
Excellent. I do like the last one best, but I do also like all of them.

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