DeBethune DB25T

I had the opportunity to view and photograph the magnificent DB25T again...

Truly a magnificent piece, beautifully conceived, finished. Jaw drapping beautiful.

The dial, hand flamed titanium to achieve the deep blue...nothign short of amazing. And the second morte complication is nicely emphasized with the large sweep seconds making its precise jumps each second.

The movement is even more amazing. I love the blued steel titanium bridge which holds the jumping seconds mechanism. And the tourbillon spinning quietly below:


And a side view, to show the depth of the movement. The movement and the rest of the watch is magnificently finished.

This series of photographs were prepared for a Leica S2 camera review. And was photographed with the excellent Summarit 120mm macro lens. The final image is cropped because the lens only focusses down to 1/2 magnification, and hence not a true macro lens.

Ultra wide panos...a dilemma

Making wide panoramas can be fun...but once we finish the photograph, and stitched it up to be an ultra wide...what do we do with them? Display on the internet boders on being rediculous, as you get a sliver of the picture at say 1024 pixels wide. Printing of course the best way to display them.

Take this image below...a 9 panel stitch of the Marina Bay area, taken from the roof of the Esplanade.

Click on the image for a 1920 wide image...even at that size, too large for typical web pages, the height of the image is a miniscule 260 pixels high.

Printed out so that the height is 610mm would yield a print which is 4.5m long...quite large, for most homes or offices.

What do you do with your ultra wide panoramas?