Heck, if you take the time & are somewhat careful, you can hand hold pano shots with excellent results, just frame it a little looser.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Manfrotto Tripod legs > >Unfortunately a camera, or even a tripod head level cannot (easily) be >>used to level the tripod. In theory it's possible, but first one would >>have to get the camera base and the top of the tripod -- the flat >>surface which mates with the underside of the head -- in perfect >>horizontal agreement. This would be very difficult. The head has three >>degrees of freedom. If I had a panorama head it would be a piece of cake >>-- but I don't >> >>Don >> > > It depends what one calls perfect. I call the way the camera base mounts > on > top of the tripod perfect to begin with. I don't understand I guess, > because I figure that I'm not going to get the camera base and the tripod > in > any horizontal alignment more perfect than the specifications those parts > are machined to. > > I think if you're very very close to level with the tripod/head/camera > combination, that the stitching software combined with cropping should > cover > most of the bases. > > Tom C. > > >>Tom C wrote: >> > You might try the flash-shoe mounteded spirit levels. That way the >> > bubble is on your camera. No glueing or anything is necessary. >> > >> > >> > >> > Tom C. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> From: Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: Manfrotto Tripod legs >> >> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:44:33 +0300 >> >> >> >> It would end up quite expensive Godfrey. I'm going to try to do it >> >> with >> >> what I have. The one thing that definitely has to be done is the >> >> bubble >> >> on the tripod has to be replaced, it died in the cold a few years ago. >>I >> >> have to get an original or it won't fit. Or at least find a bubble >> >> with >> >> a perfectly flat underside, parallel with the top, so I can cement it >> >> onto the dead one. It may not be easy to get the old one out. >> >> >> >> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> > On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Don Williams wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> The newer version (475) of the Tripod I have (075) has click stops >>on >> >> >> the leg supports. This makes it very easy to set the three legs the >> >> >> same >> >> >> distance out. I've made a gauge from a piece of scrap steel. It >> >> >> goes >> >> >> into the tube and each support is closed until it stops; then the >> >> >> thumb >> >> >> nut is tightened. Its very easy to do -- but a click stop would be >> >> >> nice. >> >> >> I thought of drilling holes for pins, but that would weaken the >> >> >> supports. Why do I want to do this? I'm planning small panoramas. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Buy a Manfrotto 3502 Compact Levelling Head ... get the leg lengths >> >> > close, then level the platform that your panorama head sits on. >> >> > >> >> > <http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home? >> >> > >> >> >>O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=203536&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNav >> >> > igation> >> >> > or >> >> > http://tinyurl.com/9oz6c >> >> > >> >> > Godfrey >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Dr E D F Williams >> >> www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ >> >> http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ >> >> 41660 TOIVAKKA - Finland - +358400706616 >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> > No virus found in this incoming message. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/384 - Release Date: >>10.7.2006 >> > >> >> >>-- >>Dr E D F Williams >>www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ >>http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ >>41660 TOIVAKKA - Finland - +358400706616 >> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
