Re: Shooting Panos with a Monopod 7408

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Abriviated Message Text: Apart from Nikkor 10.5 you should also consider Tokina 10-17 for Canon 5D http://michel.thoby.free.fr/Tokina_10_17/Intricate_Panography.html - Flemming

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Shooting Panos with a Monopod

Hey guys, I was hoping some of you may be able to offer some tips or point me towards some information on shooting 360 panos with a monopod. Currently I own a

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Justin, on a crop camera you will get significant wholes at zenith and nadir when shooting at 10 mm. No problem with a tripod but with a monopod you are

Re: Shooting Panos with a Monopod

What lens do you use with your 5D? ... From: Juergen Schrader To: PanoToolsNGyahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:32 PM Subject: [PanoToolsNG]

Re: Shooting Panos with a Monopod

Nikon 10.5 which I formerly used on a 30D. If I had to chose today and with the good experience of other users here I would also consider the Tokina.

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... Dont worry about the shots around. You dont need a pedal mechanism for that, just take 7 instead of 6 shots around when in doubt. Your main problem with a

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Agnos claims the monopod designed by them supports 10.5mm (although they did tell me the best would be the sigma 8mm....) it's got a pedal mechanism which

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This 17 foot pole pano showing camels at a scale house in India was done with a Canon 20D and the new Sigma 8mm lens with 4 shots. I shoot them in raw and jpg,

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Apart from the zenith/nadir problem for which there are various fixes, monopods and poles face another serious problem, you cannot bracket your shots. If you

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Rather then get into a discussion on HDR, why not concentrate on the artistic merit of out pano's. There are many that have been shot in high contrast

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... I suppose it depends on the subject, in that pano all of the interest in below the "horizon", so the eye is drawn away from the large blown region around

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... fixes, ... I regularly autobracket monopod sequences -- ie. 12 shots instead of the normal 4 with a 10.5mm/5D. Then I would generally optimize all 12 with

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... Ahh! I've been trying always to get the individual bracket shots to align for blending or hdr BEFORE stitching. The best results I got to date were from

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Very true, sometimes it can work for you. Like in this one that I posted with the elephants: http://www.camelphotos.com/elephants_amber.html I like the way

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... I also wished this was the case. It seems that most people in this list are more interested in hardware that actual creativity and artistic merit. I have

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... Hmmm. Don't know about that. Creativity and artistic merit is very much in the panoramas, and some of the linked panoramas recently have been mind blowing

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:51:49 +0900, Keith Davison ... This PRECISELY parallels my own experience. When I was using an 8mm Peleng with my film SLR I happily

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Sure, cause I said consider ;) Of course first I would want to make my own experience before buying one. Nonetheless I am very happy with the Nikon. ... sure

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Really? I've heard mixed reports about this lens and am not 100% sure about its quality, escpecially in regards to CA and sharpness. Any thoughts on that? ...

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There are a number of Nikon to EOS adaptors available on Ebay. Mine is one that gives focus confirmation and has no infinity focus problems. The aperture is

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Which technique did you use to attach the Nikon to your EOS? Is it difficult and can you still change apertures easily? ... From: Juergen Schrader To:

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Yep, I second that. I use one of those cheap Chinese ebay adapters, works fine. And the aperture tool from Ingemar is a great tool. Much better then that Q-tip

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Apart from Nikkor 10.5 you should also consider Tokina 10-17 for Canon 5D http://michel.thoby.free.fr/Tokina_10_17/Intricate_Panography.html - Flemming

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... Remember Michel's words though: "I do not advise to attempt such a risky operation [cutting the shade off the Tokina] to unexperienced mechanists: it may

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Hello Bazzer, ... Well, I certainly would like to make a try with one of these "intelligent" EOS/Nikon adapters as I am currently thoroughly testing the Tokina

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Michel, I purchased the adapter from happypagehk that's his ebay id. The email address I have from him is paypal3happypage.com This is several months old.

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Back on this subject. How do you go about attaching a spirit level to a monopod? I need to replace my broken tripod and have been considering getting a monopod

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If you don't have the camera too high you can have the spirit level in the flash hotshoe. - Flemming

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... Velcro, cable straps (strips?), rubber bands - to name a few options.. -- Bjørn K Nilssen - http://www.bknilssen.no - panoramas and 3D

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... to a monopod? ... Justin, I use a Manfrotto spirit-level (for autopole-system), attachable with rubber-band. Not expensive, works perfectly.

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... Not really, but I can imagine the pro's and con's. If you set it up on a flat floor and use a remote trigger device it probably works perfect, but I see

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... wrote: Here is how I did it: I went to Home Depot and bought a "fence pole leveler." about $5 as near as I can remember. It uses a rubber band to attach.

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I bought one of these pole levellers from Manfrotto. It's designed to attach to their autopole system so is perfect for monopods. It's much smaller than the

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