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howardm4 wrote:
truth be told, depending on what you want, you dont need anything. I have quite a few pano's (single row, 5-7 shots) done simply by being careful and rotating my hips without moving the camera through the arc of the shot. A ballhead w/ panning base (and leveller) is next, then you can add a nodal slide if you have close-in objects, then maybe a multi-row setup. It all depends on how much $$ you want to drop on the problem.
This is absolutely true. I've even shot excellent 7-9 frame panoramas from a kayak, both dealing with a meandering river current and on a lake. When on a boat, I use a variant of Howard's rotation method. When on land, I lock my body and carefully rotate about my feet on the rare times I'm not using a tripod, or else I level both the tripod and head and pivot with the head's pano capabilities.
The only times I really need a pano head are when I need to be extremely careful to avoid parallax (example: I want to properly capture a scene containing an element fairly close to the camera and a distant background), or when I'm capturing a multi-row pano. But for single-row panos, even those encompassing 10-20 frames on my 5DSR, just carefully leveling the tripod and ballhead and carefully stitching work fine.
If you decide you really need more extensive pano gear and are handy in a shop, there are a number of good designs available online. I designed my own, which took only a day or so to fabricate from acrylic and other raw materials.
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