Digital photography has created a new and rather miraculous form of capturing images by allowing us to stitch together hundreds, even thousands of images, that have the potential of revealing with great accuracy vast views. At present, we use the word "stitch" or "photomerge" but it would be better to have a proper term that is also flexible for creating additional terms from it. We have in English a word from ancient Greek that means "stitch", as in "rhapsody", which means "stitched song". After thinking about it for a while, even consulting with a great philologist (my friend Robert Lamberton), we came up with the term "photorapsy" that resembles photography and may also provide the adjective "photoraptic" or even the noun "photorapter", like photographer" and a verb "to photorapt".
Opinions and suggestions for discussion are welcome.
Sarantis

Even if outnumbered 300 to 1, there is no doubt that I own an AIS #223259! This means that either everyone is mistaken or else I have a rare pre-production model. Look for yourself. I am not showing it, but the attachment ring does have the AIS notch as well.

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You mean to say that it is the AIS that has the locking screw. You are right, Braczko made many mistakes with numbers, his task was too difficult to keep track of. He also says that the AIS version begins with serial number 232001, but I have an AIS lens #223259, so he may have meant to write 223001.

In the hands of a skilled photographer like you (you demonstrate it in your two great pictures), these lenses achieve miraculous results. The lens is compact and feels quite heavy at 500gm.
As a footnote to your excellent history, I am reading in Peter Braczko's, The Complete Nikon System (Rochester, NY: Silver Pixel Press, 2000, p.198) that Nikon issued an SLR version of the rangefinder lens the 10.5cm f/4 in March 1960 but produced few of them and they are very rare today.

Better not ask, don't you like surprises?

Amazing! At this size, this lens resembles those massive ones made for view cameras. Schneider is making them now for digital. One may wonder whether it is possible to reuse the old ones on the best digital equipment (?).

Quality and rarity: the 6mm captures a 220 degree angle of view, which means it's difficult to shoot without seeing your shoes or hands in the picture and if you point it upward, you can see the entire sky, as well as the horizon at 360 degrees. One of my first purchases was the 6mm, only the f/5.6 version, but a very early version from 1969 (the 28th lens made of this model).

To put it mildly, it plainly demonstrates a low cultural level. People like this don't belong in museums or in cities with cultural institutions that are supposed to teach us the lessons of history with genuine materials from the past.
Some museums prohibit taking such pictures. You may also see these people staring at the label next to a work of art longer than the work itself. One can only imagine what sort of citizens these people make and what sort of politicians they vote for.

If you have and use Photoshop, there is nothing to it: go to FILE (second column), choose AUTOMATE, and go to the bottom of it to choose PHOTOMERGE.This will lead you to a new box and ask you to BROWSE. You select any number of images of 2 or more that you have shot in a more or less straight line with 30% overlap. When you are done, simply press OK and it's done. Try it, it's wonderful!
Sarantis

I love these pictures! The downloads are like being there! You have captured the essence of Yellowstone. I wonder if you thought about panoramas and for some reason found them not suitable to the landscape (?)

I have tried it once but was not successful in that the images did not coincide as planned. I have been thinking that with greater overlap of 50-75% and as many as 50-100 shots it might be possible to get perfectly horizontal panoramas. The question remains whether it would be worth the time.

Great selection! I adore panos, but how do you do it with people, don't they move?

I am also curious: what sort of thermal underwear did you find?

This classic picture speaks to all of us : "Merry Christmas everyone and have a great winter!"

Is there a reason for not posting your guide in this forum?