Panoramic head options

nixda wrote:

jvvw wrote:

Thanks for all the information. As deardorff mentioned I probably don't need anything as that is how I have been doing it, but if something would make it more streamlined I would be interested.

If you only do single-row panoramas and you have no objects in both the foreground and the background, then handholding will probably be fine. As soon as you have objects in the foreground, you'll need to be more exacting and rotate the camera around the nodal point of the lens, which is quite a bit more difficult when hand-holding.

Thanks nixda for the picture, that is similar to what I had in mind. Marcos I searched on Amazon and there are many options and I am just trying to determine what I actually need. I am currently using the 35mm 1.4 lens and will pick up the 14mm. Those would probably be my main lenses I would use. I did find a gemtune dh-55 ball head with indexing rotator and can add the Desmond nodal slide and L plate. Would this be enough flexibilty or am I missing something?

It depends on what you want to achieve. The simplest setup is to mount a ball head that has a rotating platform upside-down on the tripod then add a nodal slide and the camera L-bracket. A bit more 'standard' would be ball head, separate rotating platform, nodal slide, camera L-bracket. Don't forget a bubble level mounted to the camera.

Thanks Nixda.