Panorama 1
Oct 20, 2018 20:44:20 #
BboH wrote:
Juan br Look at two places: br Nodal Ninja to get... (show quote)
The majority of the panos I have posted here were either done on a ball head (65%) or hand held (35%).
The only time you'll need to find the no-parallax point on a lens is when you have foreground elements that obscure some of the background, like a tree, utilty pole, etc.
The other thing that is important is to use longer lenses. It avoids the vignetting and volume deformation that occurs in the corners and edges respectively.
When doing handheld, I turn my head, body or whatever. I also seldom keep the camera level, but I will take as many shots as necessary to cover the entire compsition with frames that overlap 40% - 50%. I do this because when shooting hand held it's not easy to be precise.
However, I do prefer to use my multi-row pano head, now that I have one - faster and more accurate.
Btw, your method of eyeballing the no-parallax point is no better than not going through the motions. You either have no parallax error or you do. Even a slight amount of error will cause problems.
Oct 21, 2018 08:04:27 #
abc1234 wrote:
No tripod for this shot. See my other post. The ... (show quote)
When I was using a ball head, I used a level on the top of the tripod, then rely on the camera's "virtual horizon" feature to level the camera. I would first level the tripod, then the camera using the ball head and the VH. From that point forward, I did not touch the ball head, and if I moved the tripod, all I really needed to do was level it again. The camera and ball head did not need re-leveling.
Oct 21, 2018 08:45:03 #
Gene51 wrote:
When I was using a ball head, I used a level on the top of the tripod, then rely on the camera's "virtual horizon" feature to level the camera. I would first level the tripod, then the camera using the ball head and the VH. From that point forward, I did not touch the ball head, and if I moved the tripod, all I really needed to do was level it again. The camera and ball head did not need re-leveling.
Good suggestion. Thanks for making it and I will try it. Unfortunately, most of my panoramas are done spontaneously so I do not have my tripod. My handheld panoramas are still perfectly acceptable to me except for that curvature. I guess the only way of getting rid of that is by standing far away from the scene but that is not always possible.
You once contributed to a discussion on tripod sturdiness. As a result, I bought a new tripod that was a lot heavier and is now my primary tripod. If it were not so long and heavy, I would use it for all my pictures. It does matter. It was a used Slik for about $130 so I wonder how much better a $400 tripod and head are.
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