Yes the nodal point, It's located somewhere in your lens. If you want to buy a panoramic head consider the nodal ninja http://www.nodalninja.com one of the best heads (and cheapest) if you want to shoot full 360 degree panos with a fisheye (the pentax/tokina 10-17 is one of the best choices).
I shoot panos with the 16-45 using a monopod and an old Metz flash bracket which has the correct length to position the 16-45 nodal point above the monopod axis. A simple spirit level in the flash socket of the camera and manualy rotate the monopod. Toine > ========== > Huh, that is the nodal point thing then, the camera axis not my axis. > (Haven't had time to look at Mark's page yet). > > I also have CS and will probably get CS3. > > Thanks, Toine, and thanks Ken. > > Someone also sent me this link off list about how to build a panoramic > tripod head. Which would be great except that I don't have access to wood > work > tools and also am not great with saws. There are old guys in this community > who > like doing stuff like this though and maybe I could talk one of them into it. > Bat my eyelashes and stuff. Uh, well, maybe. Maybe not. > > http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Panoramic-Tripod-Head > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
