The Optio SV probably has a panorama assist function and is small enough to use without a special panorama head. Handheld pano's or any tripod head with a pano base is ok. The nodal point is somewhere in the middle. If your lucky the tripod connector is in the lens axis, if not a small bracket is needed to shift the tripod connector to the lens axis. You need software like autopano, panoramafactory or ptgui. The software blends any small parallax errors. Things get more tricky when using wideangle or fisheye lenses.
Toine On 3/26/06, Lon Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read that the nodal point is usually somewhere near the aperature > blades of a lens. It seems to me, that with modest length lenses, doing > either vertical or horizontal panos would be kind of easy to do with a > two axis rail. The L-R axis could compensate for any off-lens-axis > tripod mount on a camera, and the Forward-Backward axis could be used to > position the lens nodal point more or less over the center of the tripod > post. Anyone tried this? > > I'm looking forward to experimenting with such shots with my Optio SV. > > BTW, it seems to me that pano shots would be one heck of a lot easier > with a pan/tilt head than a ball head, even a ball head with a pano > base. This would be particularly true for vertical panos or 2-D panos. > > Comments invited. > > -Lon > >
