I'm kind of getting into this panorama thing

[Carbonator]

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You can actually use any lens/body combination you want. The wider the lens, less shots are needed. If you are handy, you can make your own panorama head. I made my own out of birch plywood. The idea is to rotate the camera around a specific point in the lens so that the foreground and background maintain alignment. Happy panoraming!
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[HiFiGuy1]

Wouldn't it be logical to rotate it around a point on or a plane through the sensor itself? And if so, how close is that to the existing mounting point for the camera on the bottom of the body? I guess each body is different. How do we find that point for our own cameras?

[HiFiGuy1]

Nice job, freelance. In what part of Arkansas are you located? Little Rock, right?

[freelanceshots]

Little Rock, at least until I can move and continue to make a living with my photography.

[Carbonator]

The point which some call "nodal point" or "entrance pupil" or "non-parallax point" is located toward the front of the lens, sometimes right in line with the color ring on the front of the lens. Here's a guide on how to find it.


http://www.panoguide.com/howto/panoramas/panohead.jsp





There's alot of good information around on that website.

[btaylor]

The focal plane is shown on the camera body, I think it's on the side of the hotshoe/viewfinder on mine. The symbol looks a bit like this : -0-