Thanks to you and Rob for this. Good information. Which is always much
better than digital/film or full frame/APS-C debates :-)
Paul
On Mar 26, 2006, at 6:45 PM, David Savage wrote:
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
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