False-color landscape III (720nm)

I want to deviate from my usual infrared panorama ways a little bit.

 

The original of this is a composite of 10 individual photos, shot in portrait orientation with a plain cylindrical arrangement, yielding 23533 x 4978px which is about ~117,1MP.

What you see here is just a section, around 23,6MP, since there is no point in sharing such a wide / slim panorama on Flickr without proper means to view it.

 

And by the way: This was done with the arguably "worst NIKKOR ever made", according some. Granted, this is the third iteration, the AI version which doesn't seem to compare to the earlier Auto, C or K versions (all pre-AI). I think it's great performer, with visible light, but also on the near IR spectrum where it surprisingly peaks at a rather small aperture, f/11, which is no problem since there is hardly any hotspot to be found and also makes for a larger DOF, ..so very nice for landscape.

 

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Zoom-NIKKOR 43-86mm f/3.5 AI

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO200, ???mm, f/11, 5sec

(so 64,5-129mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, regular head, remote (ML-L3)

Done