I should also have added; before running out to buy a pano head try
shooting some on a tripod but without a head. You may find that you
really don't need a head. I've probably shot less than 15 or 20 panos
but I don't have a head and haven't needed one. Probably half of them
are shot hand held and are also successful. But shooting hand held I
still try and make my body mimic the rotation on a tripod head. All of
my panos are landscape type with the subject probably at least 2500
times the focal length of the camera away from me. There's a value
somewhere in the void and I don't know what it is that says if the
subject is X times the focal length away you don't need to worry about
parallax error.
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I've been thinking about these too for quite some time. There's
> another, much lower cost competitor in the "Panosaurus"... a value
> engineered creation at $75.95. <http://gregwired.com/pano/pano.htm>
> But, like the Nodal Ninja it has a low weight limit of 3.2 lbs. That's
> not much but even a 5D can come in under that limit when fitted out with
> some lightweight OM primes. The 200/4 is about as heavy as you can go.
> The lens plus a filter and adapter is just a hair over the limit. But
> the Panosaurus looks a shoe-in for a small camera like the A1.
>
> The Jasper engineering model is tempting because it looks so well built.
> There's no weight limit specified but it doesn't look as though I
> could likely exceed whatever it is. Multi-row panos could be a problem
> though unless taken from a fair distance since there is no provision for
> maintaining the no-parallax-position once the camera is tilted up or
> down. Still the error introduced by tilting would be fairly small
> relative to the total offset needed when level.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Jay Drew wrote:
>> I am thinking of jumping into doing panorama (obligatory OM content this
>> would
>> be with OM series with various lenses, fisheye to short telephoto). In my
>> treks
>> through cyber space I've come across the Jasper Engineering head.
>>
>> http://www.stereoscopy.com/jasper/panorama.html
>>
>> It looks to be of a sturdy design (and the other modestly priced heads seem
>> to
>> have a lower weight limit (panosaurus, kingpano).
>>
>> The Nodal Ninja http://www.nodalninja.com/ has a stated 4lb limit.
>>
>> Anyone use any of these (or others in the $200 price range or less) and can
>> comment? I recognize that the Jasper has a more difficult time of doing
>> multi-row panos but I don't know if I will be doing a lot of that.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
>>
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