i have found parallax to be a big problem when your subject distances range from a dozen feet to infinity. it matters a lot, regardless of software. i shoot panoramas with equiv. of 35mm lens to 105mm. the few times i bothered to use a properly adjusted position made a marked difference. but finally, i have decided that i am too lazy for that, although i do know that ther result suffers.
mishka On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 20:08:11 -0500, Herb Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for the types of subjects i shoot where the closest objects are a couple of > feet away until infinity, it never mattered much whether i was a centimeter > or so away from the nodal point. i shot fisheye and ultrawides. i found the > software mattered a lot more. > > Herb.... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:06 PM > Subject: Re: The Nodal Point in a lens > > > It can be very important, it really depends on the subject and lens > geometry. > > For instance when shooting panos in very limited confines with fisheye > lenses > > where objects are at varying distances the nodal point needs to be set > very > > precisely. A few years ago I had a Kaidan Kiwi+ head but found it far too > > imprecise to set repeatedly when changing lens/camera combos. > >
