I really don't see how this is different from any other panoramic application. You get your nodal ninjas, or RRS pano platforms and you're carefully rotating the camera around preset angles. Why not get a computer to automate that for you. I fail to see how spinning the camera around a pano-head is more artful than letting the computer do it. What you point it at and when and how you process and display the final work is what adds the "art" to your project. I fail to see how this thing could is at all a threat to anyone's artistic integrity.
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This is how I understood teh essay, which could be inaccurate becsaue I read it fast:
What I "think" it does, and yes you could do it yourself but it would be really hard, is to take vertical and horizontal shots of the landscape--using a 600MM lens, for example--so your resolution when looking at the "far away" horizon has detail it would have if you had a 600MM wide angle lens, which is impossible by definition.
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It adjusts the focus to match the focus of the further away shots to the foreground shots, for lack of an elegant explanation. So each snap is in focus relative to the last snap. That's what the computer does. It doesn't just take say 6 images horizontally (Again, how I understood it). I think it takes, for one single pano, maybe 100+. Then stitches them automatically. Each image is in sharp focus. So you end up with a pano shot at 600MM with DoF as sharp in the foreground as it is in the background. Your DoF is now effectively as close as your lens can focus all the way to infinity.
