Kaidan QuickPan Panoramic Tripod Head manual QuickPan III / IV Panoramic Tripod Head Overview

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QuickPan III / IV Panoramic Tripod Head Overview

Welcome to the Kaidan QuickPan III / IV and Panoramic Photography

Thank you for purchasing a Kaidan QuickPan III / IV Panoramic Tripod Head.This manual is designed to help you understand how to use your QuickPan III / IV to create quality panoramas.This document will be re- vised from time to time and updated versions can be downloaded from the QuickPan III / IV page on the Kaidan web site.

QuickPan III / IV Overview

 

The QuickPan III / IV family is built

 

around a sturdy and precise Rotator

 

Base with interchangable indexing

 

ClickDiscs (or rings QP-III).There

 

are several camera brackets that slide

 

and lock onto the Rotator Base.The

 

QuickPan IV rotator design super-

 

sedes the QuickPan III rotator and

 

uses a new flat detent disc design.

 

A panoramic tripod head makes it

 

easy to capture a sequence of photos

 

that are stitched to form a complete

 

panoramic image. It holds the camera

 

in the portrait orientation, positions

 

the camera so that it rotates around

 

the optical center or nodal point of

 

the lens and provides a repeatable

 

and adjustable click-stop indexing

QuickPan IV Rotator with Optional Twin-Axis Adapter and Compact Camera Bracket

mechanism.

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Contents QuickPan QuickPan III / IV Panoramic Tripod Head Overview QuickPan III / IV Family Introducing the QuickPan III / IV ComponentsRemoving Indexing Rings Installing Indexing RingsQuickPan III Rotator Base Installing Detent Discs QuickPan IV Rotator BaseQuickPan III / IV Rotator Base Tripod threaded bushing adapterStandard Camera Bracket Camera Mounting Mounting your camera on the Standard Camera BracketSpherical Camera Bracket Camera Mounting Mounting your camera on the Spherical BracketCamera Mounting Standard Camera Bracket Mounting your camera on the camera bracketsCamera Mounting Compact Camera Bracket Using the QuickPan-L Rotator QuickPan-L RotatorSide-to-side adjustment Nodal PointHow About Rangefinder Cameras? Fore-Aft AdjustmentRecord Your Results What is it and how do I find it? How much Overlap? Shooting PanoramasHow do I begin? How many Shots?Us know Warranty and Product Return Information Kaidan Warranty and Return Policy Limited Warranty