most of my panoramas include an object within 5ft of the front of the lens. i mostly use the 16-45 but sometimes i use the 12-24. with both, i shoot panoramas only at the widest zoom. in either case, i've found that the nodal point didn't matter much so long as i was within a centimeter or two. getting the focal length right in the software was far more important. a few tenths of a mm difference in focal length made a big difference.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mishka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:45 PM Subject: Re: The Nodal Point in a lens > 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.
