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Panoramic Technique
 

Panoramic Tripod Head and Equipment
 
With panoramic photography becoming very popular there are many companies that make specific equipment for this niche market. The prices of tripod heads vary from under 100 dollars to over 1000 dollars. It is also possibly to make your tripod head with household materials and/ or a trip to Home Depot. View this link of a "Monster Garage" like Panohead
 
Panoramic Tripod Heads and Equipment
Nodal Ninja http://www.nodalninja.com

Panosaurus Tripod Head

http://www.gregwired.com/pano/Pano.htm

Sony 828 Homemade Bracket

http://www.pbase.com/jczwien

Reallyrightstuff.com Pano Equipment

http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/pano/index.html
Panoramic Head Equipment http://www.4pi.org/equipment/
King Pano http://www.kingpano.com/
   
Companies  
Manfrotto http://www.manfrotto.com
Kaidan http://www.kaidan.com
Peace River Studios http://www.peaceriverstudios.com
   

Need help in finding the nodal point. These 2 links should help with many common cameras and lenses:

http://www.swissarmyfork.com/lens_table_1.htm

http://www.panotools.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=EntrancePupildb
       

Sony 828 Nodal Point

28mm 56mm
35mm 51mm
50mm 38mm
70mm 21mm

Nikon D70s Nodal Point

18mm (Kit Lens): 82-83mm link

 

10.5: It is about 78.5 mm from tripod thread to nodal point of lens (six shots around); 80.5 mm also yields results; 81.5 mm is measured on the above link

 Panasonic Fz10/ 15/ 20 Nodal Point
off-axis:22mm
Nodal point(1X zoom): 80mm
nodal point (2x zoom): 32mm 
nodal point (3x zoom): 4mm		 Olympus C8080 Nodal Point
off-axis 23mm,
camera height 38mm,
56mm in front of tripod mount
       

Panosaurus Tripod Examples (Panoramic Tripod Head)
 

The Gates- Central Park, New York City (360 degrees)

Camera: Sony F828

Images: 24 (2 rows x 12)

Date: 2/22/2005
Comments: More "The Gates" photos can be found here
 
Robert Moses State Park- Long Island, NY (360 degrees)
View: 360 Java VR

 

 

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