RE: Panoramic heads not necessary for Noblex.

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 22 Feb 00 at 20:06, Peter Marshall wrote:

> > Can you divide into thirds? Good, then you do not need
> > to buy a special pan head for your Noblex, Widelux, or
> > Horizon. All that you need to do is to mark the "pan"
> > on your tripod into thirds. Look at your tripod, it
> > may already be marked. If yours is marked by degrees
> > "3rds" would be 120 degree apart.
> > 
> > Set up your tripod with the camera on one of the
> > "3rds" marks, shoot and move to the next, shoot and
> > move to the next, shoot. You are done. It's that easy
> > and it didn't cost a dime!
> > 
> > Bob 
> > 
> If you are using a Horizon you might find it better to use 4 pictures at 
> 90 degrees as you may get slight gaps at 120 degrees.

Officially it's 118.68[*] degrees horizontally, so even technically you are 
4 degrees short, even discounting human error/misalignment (*from* 
the human, not *in* the human....;-))

Another thing to keep in mind is rotating the camera in the right 
direction, so that you can view all 3-4 shots together while still on 
the roll....with most cameras (assuming film spooling from left to 
right), this means rotating the camera from left to right as well.

[*] 28mm x 2 x pi = length of a full 360 swing; knowing the frame is 
only 58mm wide, you can calculate what section of a full swing this 
is; 58/175.59291 x 360 = 118.68 degrees....















 

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