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    Panoramic Head Recommendations

    Hi there,

    i am want to shoot panoramic landscapes and am looking for a pano head to rotate around the nodal point of my lens. Is there one that you guys could recommend?
    Right now I am shooting with a 4x5 camera but might upgrade to 8x10.
    Is there anything available?
    I tried to search in this forum but did not get any results.

    Thanks a lot.

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    Re: Panoramic Head Recommendations

    The only panorama head I’ve ever known to rotate on lens axis is the old version of the Rollei TLR panorama head. But I never did much research in that area.

    I used a later version Rollei head with “LF”... Cambo 4x5 with 90mm lens and 6X6 roll film back. Not LF, just a ridiculously big MF camera. It actually worked.

    One of my tripod head has degree marking... that actually might be just as easy, especially since it will allow for different FOVs than inherent in the Rollei accessory.

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    Re: Panoramic Head Recommendations

    You can use any head to do this. You need to find the nodal point of the lens (it's not always in the center of the barrel). Then you need to get that point over the center of the rotation point. A slider plate can be used (with counter weights in the front). You could rig something up with wood if you wanted. I've made plates out of aluminum that didn't look like much, but work really well.
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