Re: Tripod and head for panoramic photography

[James Romeo <jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use just the head with my Noblex just mount a ball head on the panhead than the camera
on the ball head works great with the Noblex 
James Romeo
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From: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Tripod and head for panoramic photography
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 09:33:40 -0400

Check out the website's page for their head. 
http://www.kaidan.com/products/qtleveler.html 
This is not a tripod head but an in-between stage that is used to level the 
head.  I use it with my Noblex alone, the only drawback is that it has no 
PAN. 
 
Joe McCary 
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From: Chilli <chilli@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 6:05 PM 
Subject: Re: Tripod and head for panoramic photography 
 
 
> Hi Joe, 
> Could you give me an idea of the model number for this head please. 
> Thanks, 
> Ian 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Bill Glickman <bglick@xxxxxxxx> 
> To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Date: Saturday, 10 June 2000 10:44 
> Subject: Re: Tripod and head for panoramic photography 
> 
> 
> Joe 
> 
> I have had excellent luck with the new Bogen Pan head.... very 
sophisticated 
> and much less $$ than the Kaidan head.  The only draw back, its a bit big 
> and heavy, hard to backpack with... its on the Bogen web site.  Very 
> precisioned. 
> 
> The only drawback I had with stitching was limitations of file sizes.  On 
> Windows 98, their is some type of temp. file size limitation that the 
> stitching programs use... once you pass this, the programs crash.  I kept 
> hitting that ceiling.  David Rowe from Enroute imaging discovered this 
> shortcoming.  I hear that Windows NT does not have the same problem 
though? 
> What I am really curious about is whether any of these limitations exist 
on 
> the Mac? 
> 
>        I was considering buying Apples Quick time VR stitched (not sure I 
> got the name right)  Does anyone have experience with this product for 
> stitching large files?  By large, I was stitching 8  200 MB files. 
> 
> Bill G 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe McCary" <mccary@xxxxxxxxx> 
> To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:23 PM 
> Subject: Re: Tripod and head for panoramic photography 
> 
> 
> > I have done lots of stitched panoramas.  I use the Kiadan Kiwi+ head. 
it 
> > works well but is expensive.  I also use their leveling head that makes 
> > leveling the camera easy.  As for a tripod I use a Gitzo Carbon Fiber 
> tripod 
> > (also expensive).  You can find Kiadan at www.kiadan.com 
> > Joe McCary 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Chilli <chilli@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 6:42 AM 
> > Subject: Tripod and head for panoramic photography 
> > 
> > 
> > > be very interested to hear of anyone's thoughts and 
> > > experiences with various tripods and heads. 
> > > 
> > > My camera is a Sony DSC F505 digital camera. 
> > 
> > 
> 
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