Re: Help, Need panorama head for Noblex

["George S. Pearl" <alps007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OOPS!
   I didn't realize that you wanted to put your Noblex on the head. I was a
bit off when I said that my bar thing was for a swing lens camera. It
wasn't...sorry. Most swing lens cameras have a tripod hole mount exactly
where they need to be under the rotating lens. What I was explaining with
the bar gadget was for my NIKON camera to be able to shoot panoramas and
have the lens rotate about the noodle point. Sorry for the mix-up there. The
bar that I made actually had about a dozen holes in it all of the way down
so as to allow the camera to adjust to most any position with any lens that
I had. Hope this helps somehow to someone.
My best,
George Pearl, QPP

PS: ask Peter Lorber what the name of the small panoramic head is that I was
told to get for my Roundshot 65 camera. He has one as do I, but I don't see
the name on it and maybe he will remember. The thing looks like a small
version of a lazy Susan pancake thing with a  knob sticking out the side.
:-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "George S. Pearl" <alps007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Help, Need panorama head for Noblex


> Hey Joe,
>    Over 20 years ago when I wanted to do the same thing as you for a swing
> lens camera I then owned, I simply just took a small flat metal bar and
> drilled and threaded a 1/4 x 20 inch thread hole on one end and then
another
> for where I wanted to have the camera placed back from the tripod head.
You
> screw the bar into the tripod on the end hole, and mount your camera onto
> the bar with the offset further back down the bar hole / and 1/4 x 20 in.
> thread screw. Are you following me so far? So...now your camera is mounted
> onto a steel bar that allows it to sit offset from the center of the
tripod
> head. The lens will be able to rotate right over the tripod head in this
> fashion. The whole thing cost me about three dollars, and worked like a
> million. KISS
> My best,
> George S. Pearl, QPP
> Atlanta Panorama
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe McCary" <mccary@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Help, Need panorama head for Noblex
>
>
> > > I need a pan head that allows me to turn the Noblex 150 on its tripod
> > mount
> >
> > Thanks to all who gave me some ideas for a pan head to use with the
> Noblex.
> > I will check them out.
> >
> > Joe McCary
> >
>