Suggested gear for panoramas?

[Tony Printezis]

Hi,


Thanks for the reply.

If you just want one row - horizontal panning only - your existing 3-way head will do the trick, since you can unlock just the horizontal motion.

True. I assume I have to make sure the camera + tripod are correctly leveled too... I haven't tried this yet, but you're right, I should.

One other possible addition would be an L-bracket, so you can take horizontal panos in portrait orientation without getting too far off your nodal point.

Yeah, I've done lots of panoramas with the camera in portrait orientation as I can get a bit more resolution that way.

More expensive options that still come in short of the dSLR Gigapan model include QTVR heads like the Manfrotto 303SPH or the more reasonably-priced Nodal Ninja.

The Manfrotto costs more than I would like to spend on this, I'll look into the Nodal Ninja. Thanks. Will something like that be more effective over simply using the 3-way head + an L-bracket (sorry for the amateur questions; I'm just not familiar with this stuff)?

Here's some relevant info on the nodal point.

Thanks, I will have a look.


Tony