Using Cube for Panos (rotating around nodal point)

[kdphotography]

Single Row: RRS MPR and Cube :thumbup:

MultiRow: Go immediately to the RRS website for a multi-row pano set-up: Really Right Stuff - Item Listing

 

[Don Libby]

Multi-row is achievable by lowering the Cube angle a couple degrees (say 15). Shoot left to right on that row before centering the angle of the Cube to zero and shooting that row left to right. Raise the angle of the Cube an equal amount from the first and shoot your 3rd row. This is very similar to what RRS does. By the time you're done you'll have shot 3-rows say 3-times per row for a total of 9 images. Stitch them all together and you'll get one huge image. Of course since this wasn't done as a flat stitch you'll still get something like a bowtie but you'll be able to crop to suite.

This was one of the deciding factors for me going to a tech camera and the ability to flat stitch one or more row of images.

Don

more later....

 

[Don Libby]

Thanks Don. I never cease to be amazed at how wonderful people on this group are!

Thanks - however wait till you know us better then check your wallet

 

[Ed Hurst]

I am sorry to say that my wallet has been taking this sort of hit for many years now already . Rather than being a bad influence corrupting a previously virtuous person, you guys are just a support group / encouragement source for someone already utterly beyond redemption ;-)

 

[Ed Hurst]

Don - it sounds like what you are saying is that, assuming I am getting the Cube anyway, that it will do the multi-row panning task (in conjunction with a rail) as well as the RRS solutions that are referred to above...

By the way, one really nice thing about the Pentax 645D is that it has two tripod sockets, one on the side of the camera for vertical shots - so no L-bracket will be needed to do pans using the camera in that orientation.

 

[billbunton]

Bill - those items looks interesting. I am not sure what a complete pano set up would consist of that is not achieved by the combo of Cube and such a rail. Am I missing a trick?

You can do everything with just the cube and rail. I've got the Ultimate-Pro Omni-Pivot Package - Ult-Pro-OPP - Kit Configuration Page setup, makes it real easy to do multi-row panos. (To be honest, what I've got is the PG-02 FG: PG-02 Full Gimbal Head - PG-02-FG - Kit Configuration Page, but it's easy to change the configuration to the pano package, using a clamp I already have.)

 

[jlm]

if i needed multiple rows, haven't for a while) I could shift vertically and pan horizontally?