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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · L bracket any benefit for landscape and pano work? | |
Short answer, get the L-bracket, preferably one designed for your camera. Long answer below.
You can do pano on a budget if you're willing to use slightly less convenient components that cost less.
At a minimum you can use a panning clamp on top of the ballhead or a flippable head like the Arca-Swiss P0 or Acratech GP series heads. Or you could get a leveling base and attach a panning clamp, which limits your degree of freedom but is nice and compact. With either of these, you could mount your camera vertically with an L-bracket and do landscape panoramas. You are limited to single row with the horizon splitting the middle of the image, neither allows for vertical tilt.
Let's say you want to include elements in the scene close to the camera. Now you have to deal with parallax and you need to add a nodal slide. You adjust this to the NPP (no parallax point) which you've predetermined for your particular lens, camera body, and focal lengths. I keep a little chart on my phone so it's always with me.
Let's say you want to go further and adjust the position of the horizon in your single-row horizontal pano. Now you need to introduce a way to vertically tilt your rig above the level of your horizontal panning base, which has already been leveled to the horizon. Just put a ballhead on top of your leveled base, put the nodal slide in the ballhead clamp, then attach your camera and make sure it's also horizonally leveled on the head.
Or you can go all out and use a panorama head. Mine is comprised of, in the following order, the tripod, the leveling base, a panning clamp, a horizontal arm, a vertical arm, a second panning clamp, the nodal slide, then the camera. The beauty of a panorama head is that once assembled it's easy to level and quick to capture single or multi-row panos with your camera oriented vertically or horizontally depending on how you want the final image to look. Here is a link similar to the one I assembled, though you can find cheaper rails on eBay:
https://www.hejnarphotostore.com/product-p/scv-8-inch.htm
Some people use indexed rotators. I do mine in live-view and just shoot for 50% overlap.
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