PanoTools NG:
Re: Help with selection of a proper Panning head
bigwade 2007-Dec-04 23:06:18
Hi Jim,
can you explain why you want to use these dinosaurs for panorama's ?
At 8x10" , 6 (10?) shots around, bracketed, would cost you a fortune, again
and again. (film, lab, scanning, time...)
Just calculate how many pano's you will do this way and a Hasselblad or
Mamiya HD back system is the cheaper and better way to go.
Multi-row digital SLR is another and much cheaper option.
You will get troubles with scanning the chromes (colorshift in corners, E6
chemical errors in the lab, dust with scanning. etc, etc.)
I am just curious, I used to work with Sinars 4x5" and 5x7" 1979-1999.
BTW the new Nodal Ninja 5 will fit both your Nikon and the Hassy stuff.
http://tinyurl.com/yv8evx
Have Fun !
Frank
montanajimbo2001 wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I would appreciate some constructive coaching regarding pan head
> assemblies that might work for me that makes more sense that what
> I've come up with so far. I am new at Pano's and just don't know what
> equipment is out there as yet. I want to do single row 360's using a
> 4 x 5 and / or an 8x10 view camera... I would also like to work into
> 360/180's using a D2x. What I have come up with so far are products
> by Manfrotto... They have a 303Plus Precision Pan Head and also a
> 303SPH Multi Row Pan Head. I feel that 303Plus which is rated at a
> gear weight of 11 lbs will work but only for a 360 rotation. The
> 303SPH is only rated at 8.8 lbs so I'm nervous about going their...
> The latter would be the best solution as it would do everything. I
> will never use the 303SPH with a 4x5 as intended (360 x 180 pano's).
> I would only go that way using a D2X or a 35mm
maybe a med format
> film camera. What I don't want to do if I can help it is buy two
> heads as that's fairly spendy. If anyone has been thru this or knows
> or other options please let me know. Has anyone added another
> precision rail assy or ?? To a 303plus to get to a SPH
> configuration. Their is a part a 303SPHUG which consists of
> everything in the 303SPH except the rotation unit but tit's not cost
> effective to go that way I think ( almost 500 US) I have done some
> Pano work using the 4x5 and really like what I'm getting so far so I
> want to be able to deal with the weight.
>
> Jim
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