Panoramic Photography - Finding the Nodal Point

Excellent video, thank you! What I take away is the basic idea that the front element of the lens is the pivot point?

So well explained! Thank you Sir!

Very helpful, thanks for sharing

Excellent explanation! Many thanks!

Thank for your enlightening video! I’d like to ask if the position of the camera, vertical or horizontal, on the nodal rail requires to do the procedure you demonstrate twice. Thank you in advance!

A very comprehensive demonstration of finding nodal point and a useful tip to measure in landscape mode fr better accuracy. Thanks.

Perfect tutorial!

Excellent thanks for sharing, I would like to start shooting panoramas. I bought one of those expensive nodal pint system but it takes longer to set it, this is much better and cheap option, why I didn’t see this video before

So informative and well spoken. Thank you sir! 👏

Very practical and most rapid way to find the point!
Just a question: if I put the center axe of the tripod and the two distances on the same line ( for example a straight line at the sight on the road 🛣️) do I get more accurate results??

Many thanks!

What an informative video. I watched this a few weeks ago and ordered that slider you are using - tried it out as soon as I got it and it works perfectly just like you demonstrated. My Nikon is now making panoramic picture taking so much easier with your technique. One thing you didn't mention which maybe should be brought to the attention of your subscribers is that, even if you don't have a near and far object in your subject, it is probably wise to set the lens to the position you have recorded for that focal length, as it costs nothing and you never know how much even mid distance objects may react to far distant objects. Once you've gone to the trouble of making your measurements, it's a slam dunk that you should then use them when possible. Thanks again for your help with this video, Such a simple technique yet, so helpful when it comes to the editing stage on the computer later on!

Charles, can you clarify what we are measuring by the nodal point measurement. Is it the distance between that when you centre the nodal rail over the tripod centre and the nodal reading on the nodal rail when you get the no parallax: the difference is the nodal measurement (or if the zero point is the nodal rail when you first centre it over the tripod centre). Also can you explain how to centre the camera exactly, I do not think your video demonstrated this (I know this is very time consuming).. Thanks.

Thanks Charles. I was wondering, if you place your nodal rail in a different position, would the nodal point be different ? How do you ensure the nodal rail is set in only 1 position. Thanks.

Very clearly explained Sir ! Thanks

Sir, I take my hat off to you. Thank you for the video !!

Thank you

This was great! Thank you! Just now about to enter the Pano world snowshoeing in Glacier National in Montana. So Im using Fuji gfx100s taking 23mm , 80mm and 250mm primes. If im using a 200mm 35mm equivalent prime lens ( the 250 lens) will there be so little parallax error to even bother putting that lens on the nodal rail?

Great simple tutorial. Thanks mate👍

Excellent, many thanks!

My photography professor!

Great tutorial! Thanks! This was everything I needed and void of all the chatter and off-topic tangents common in most other videos from other. I’m a subscriber! Keep up the great work, sir!

Thanks for the Video, the information you've provided is extremely useful, thanks for sharing :)

Great tutorial thanks so much

Just perfect. The easiest way ever to find the nodal point. Thank you.

Does this rig work if you also did multi-row pano?

Thank you, this is a very concise and informative video regarding the subject

Great job Charles thank you for making this very easy to understand! DO you have a link for that Neewer bracket you use?

This is the best video explaining the need for finding a nodal point, thank you

Hi Charles
Brilliant Tutorial
Tried your method of finding the nodal point. The gear i'am using is a Neewer levelling plate, Neewer fluid panning head, Neewer nodal slide. I found it interesting that when I tried using my sigma 18-250 lens from 18 to 250 there was only a 13mm difference across all the focal lengths. However when i used my Tokina 11-16mm lens it stayed at 62mm through all the focal lengths.
Thanks again for your excellent videos

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO

I just wanted to thank you again for your utube videos they are great to the point giving you all the facts as you go you are a great teacher and I,d like to meet up but that ain’t going to happen because I’m in the UK I don’t know how I could private message you but I guess if you gave out your info you would be inundated with so many messages you would have no time doing what you do. Thanks again Steve.

Thanks for your help

Thank you so much for your advice it was very helpful I have watched a number of your videos and am learning a bit more although I do have a couple of specific questions to ask regarding the KIT I would need. How can I find out all the bits that I will need to fit onto my tripod? Any thank you once again

Hi thank you so much, I do watch all your videos but on the TV so I do not comment. However I always give a thumbs up. I am getting on a bit now and mostly use 4x5 so i am always trying new things with digital. Thanks from Eric near Cambridge England

Great tutorial now I know what I need to do to remove parallax error of my panorama’s. I didn’t realise you needed this part.

Very useful information and very nicely put

Great tutorial! Thank you so much! 👍👍👍

Great video. I've been assembling the hardware to try pano photography. Used the same techniques to measure the nodal point for several lenses and zoom settings. One caution, be sure to get the longer rail so it covers all possibilities.

Thanks for sharing Charles!

Thanks for making it easy to understand!!

Thanks for sharing very interesting

This is what I know nothing about Thank you Charles !!

Simple and useful, thank you Charles^^