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DIY nodal slide anybody?

Started Oct 2, 2019 | Discussions thread
Giovanni_1968
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Re: DIY nodal slide

Bernard Delley wrote:

I actually made one, several years ago.

But, do not forget that the entire setup includes a tripod, leveling pano head (here Arca P0) with clamp (I DIY mounted an RRS clamp on P0) , my DIY nodal slide with nodal positions marked (with RRS clamp on the slide), L-bracket . This is for single row pano.

Since I had no nodal slide at the time, and it was out of stock locally. I did mill one from aluminum in my home workshop in time for my photo trip.

But, as others pointed out, the nodal slide is the least costly part of the pano setup.

Often on travel/hiking, I do not have the pano setup with me mostly for weight and bulk reasons. So I do free hand pano. The built in level on the recent Nikon DSLR helps. But, close up foreground should not be present in free hand panoing.

I understand the slide being the least expensive part of a pano setup, I already have an L-Plate onto my camera, sometime I will also get either a better ball head than my Benro and a levelling base or the Acratech one which can do both, probably to buy a Chinese one (nodal slide) to start with is the quickest and cheapest, I just want to start and avoid parallax and to take landscapes with different focal lengths than my 20mm as to have more res and field of view.

Thanks for your input

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