
My purchasing advice for panoramic heads per use Next key points: Panoramic heads on the market Very convenient! There are several models that I'll study in details in these pages. The most famous are Bushman Panoramic Gobi, Nodal Ninja 3 Mk3 or 6, Ultimate R1 or also M1-L.Ĭhoose its rotator carefully because it enables to rotate the panoramic head from the number of degrees you need without looking through the viewfinder. There are several sorts depending on your needs.

You need a panoramic head called spherical. To make a virtual tour, a panoramic head is almost essential, especially when you do it from time to time! The rest of this page is aimed at those who want to learn more. Here are the key points to remember about panoramic heads. Here is a presentation of a spherical panoramic head and its different parts for starters. The camera body also tilts at the nodal point. In the first case we were talking about cylindric heads, because they enable to make a cylinder (floor and ceiling of the photo are missing) and in this second case we're talking about spherical heads because they enable to shoot a complete sphere. Once you found it, quietly at home, you only have to set your camera at the right place, at the nodal point / No parallax point that you'll have marked with the marked rails of the panoramic head.Įven if two moving axis are enough for the panoramic head, when you're trying to make a mono-range panorama stitching, as you could see in the tutorial dedicated to the stitching of a panorama and enable to set the camera ideally, meaning that the No-Parallax Point of the lens is just above the rotary axis of the panoramic head, in the case studied here, it needs to have third one, around the tilting axis. There's no need to look for it every time. I'd like to say again that this ideal rotation point is always the same for a given camera, lens and focal. not always and especially since it is about stitching all the edges of each photo.
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Some pieces of panorama software are undoubtedly very good but. It enables to direct the camera in absolutely all directions around the nodal point of the lens.įor the ones who want to create a virtual tour of high quality and above all, that stitches well, I still think it is better to set the camera at the nodal point - Read my e-Book of 99 pages -, hence obvisouly using a panoramic head.

When you want to make virtual tours, you absolutely need a panoramic head called spherical.

Shoot a photo of a complete sphere without a special accessory, the panoramic head, is illusory.
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How to choose your panoramic head to make a virtual tour ?
