G'day Lon, In my experience the "nodal" point is actually in front of the aperture blades.
Here is my Pano setup (copied off Rob Studdert) and my addition to make it usable in both the landscape & portrait orientation: <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/LBracket/Misc_009_1.htm> And this is a prototype for making spherical panoramas: <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/IMGP4647%20(Medium).jpg> Cheers, Dave On 3/27/06, 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 > > -- "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." - Spike Milligan
