Toine, yeah, the SV does have an assist function, the tripod mount is off center, and I guess I'd try to put the middle of the lens in the center of the tripod for a first go. I'd experiment with it now, except that there's still plenty else more useful to learn about the SV. Thanks for the input. In a week or two, I'll monkey with it.
-Lon Toine wrote:
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.
