Kaidan QPX-2 manual Record Your Results

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 your camera does not have a hot shoe, then you’ll need to level the camera another way. If the camera has a flat, level surface, then you can use a bubble level. You should be able to locate a small level at a hardware store. If your

there are no level surfaces, then you may have to resort to “eyeballing”.

If, as shown to the right, the two objects move with respect to one and another in the viewinder, slide the camera fore or aft in order to elimi- nate this movement. Here, the telephone pole has moved be- hind the brick wall.

STEP 4: RECORD YOUR RESULTS

After you’ve discovered the two location dimensions, be sure to record the settings. The QuickPan camera bracket has a 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.

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