Sorry to hear of your tribulations, Ian.
If the camera with panorama built-in is a Fuji you can switch to 3 other
orientations, 2 of which are portrait. Have a look at the instructions on the
LCD when you have the mode selected.
Moose is the best man for recommending a tripod like that.
Chris
> On 12 Dec 2014, at 10:36, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This year has been quite the worst I have experienced for some time with 5
> family deaths, paycuts and now my father in law will be in and out of
> hospital over christmas and for the foreseeable future, sure things could be
> worse but they could also be better.
>
> Anyway my photography has taken quite a back seat and motivation has been
> low, however I am hoping that they new year brings new energy and interest to
> my picture taking,I hope to spend a few weeks in wales next year and am
> looking for a new angle to my images.
>
> I have the panorama mode built into my camera but it only works in images
> landscape mode and I would like to take some images in portrait mode and
> stitch them. I recently bid on a nodal ninja 3 but when the price edged up
> towards the cost of a new one I had second thoughts.
>
> I have a great tripod but its rather large to carry so I have been looking
> for a light hiking tripod, I looked at the befree but then I remembered
> moose's recent post on the velbon ultrek and it gets favorable reviews not
> only from moose. I see that there is a version with a panorama ball head and
> wonder if any one has used a ball head for panoramas in landscape mode or
> would I need something extra like the nodal ninja which is clearly up to the
> task. Cost is an issue though so i would be interested in how others are
> doing it.
>
> I am thinking of pulling the trigger on a velbon UT43Q with QHD-U4Q but am
> hesitating because I am not sure if the camera would catch on the legs or
> something else as it is rotated
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