Aligning a panoramic head - Nodal Ninja 3 MkII

http://bit.ly/PanoIntro Quick guide to aligning a Nodal Ninja or any other similar panoramic-head to ensure that as you rotate the camera you don't suffer from excessive parallax error.

Part of a larger prezi tutorial on panoramic photography http://bit.ly/PanoIntro

The panohead I'm using in the video is the Nodal Ninja 3 MkII with the basic rotator included in the NN3 MKII Starter Package (not one of the advanced rotators). This uses 'detente' rings to provide a fixed number of rotation stops, rather than the more flexible (and more expensive) versions also available.
http://www.nodalninja.com/

The wizzy rotation to enable me to take the nadir shot is enabled with the Nadir Adaptor - which allows you to spin the head around quickly, move the tripod, and shoot straight down without capturing the tripod legs.
http://store.nodalninja.com/products/Nadir-Adapter-for-NN3-and-NN5-series.html

I'm also using the Arca style QR clamp (and a QR plate from Really Right Stuff on my Panasonic G2 camera for normal panos (although not shown in this video).

Before you ask - no I'm not shooting panoramic images with a film-based Canon AE1-Program. I'm just using it to illustrate the technique.

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• panoramic photography
• panoramic
• photography
• pano
• nodal ninja
• NN3
• align

[carlyleighb]

just what I was looking for! thanks