Kaidan III manual Fore-Aft Adjustment, Record Your Results, How About Rangefinder Cameras?

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Nodal Point (continued)

What is it and how do I find it?

Step 2: Fore-Aft Adjustment

This step is most easily accomplished out of doors. Find a vertical edge or line, such as a doorway or edge of a building. Position your camera and tripod about 2-1/2 feet away, or as close as possible with the edge still in focus when you look through the viewfinder. If you’re using a multirow head such as the QuickPan III Spherical, set the swing arm to a level horizontal position (zero degrees).

Looking through the camera’s viewfinder, find another vertical edge or line that is far away, such as another building or telephone pole. Align the two objects and rotate the pan head so they are in the left hand side of the viewfinder.

Rotate the pan head so the two objects move over to the right hand side of the viewfinder. Unless you’ve managed to unwittingly locate the right position, you should notice the two objects will move with respect to each other as you rotate the pan from

Looking through the viewfinder align a close object (brick wall) with a faraway object (telephone pole).As you rotate the camera from side-to-side there should be no relative movement between the two objects as shown to the right.

If, as shown above, the two objects move with respect to one and another in the viewinder, slide the camera fore or aft in order to eliminate this movement. Here, the telephone pole has moved behind the brick wall.

left to right. Slide the camera to the front or rear as required to eliminate

this relative movement.

Step 3: Record Your Results

After you’ve discovered the two location dimensions, be sure to record the settings. The QuickPan III has convenient indicator scales for this purpose. These numbers represent the nodal point for this given camera and lens combination. If you change cameras or lenses, this procedure may have to be repeated

Step 5: How About Rangefinder Cameras?

A rangefinder camera is a camera where you look through a separate viewfinder and not through the actual lens. The process is basically the same. Locate the Side-to-Side adjustment as discussed in Step 1. When it comes to the Fore-Aft adjustment, you won’t be able to look through the viewfinder to determine

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Contents QuickPan QuickPan III Panoramic Tripod Head Overview Welcome to the Kaidan QuickPan III and Panoramic PhotographyRotator Base QuickPan III FamilyIntroducing the QuickPan III Components Twin-Axis Camera Bracket StandardPro Quick Release Camera Bracket Rotator Base Installing Indexing RingsAdjusting the Force of the Spring Plunger Removing Indexing RingsStandard Camera Bracket Camera Mounting Mounting your camera on the Standard Camera BracketSpherical Camera Bracket Camera Mounting Mounting your camera on the Spherical BracketTwin-Axis Camera Bracket Camera Mounting Mounting your camera on the Twin-Axis Camera BracketSide-to-side adjustment What is it and how do I find it?Nodal Point Record Your Results Fore-Aft AdjustmentHow About Rangefinder Cameras? Nodal Point How much Overlap? Shooting PanoramasHow do I begin? How many Shots?Before shooting the photo Warranty and Product Return Information Kaidan Warranty and Return Policy Limited Warranty