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Great walkthrough. Thanks for the vid. 📷📸

When you angle the pano head down, do you change any settings or are they still continued from the same straight panoramic?

Hi Mike, great video. What make is your nodal pan head?

Can you give me link for this panaroma head? I can’t find it

Fantastic video. Succinct, informative.

Very interesting. I wonder if nodal point in not very usefull when the first plan in really straight. I made a handheld panorama from the beach. The final panorama was like I was on a creek, which means people who were on the straight left side became in FRONT left side and same thing on the right. Close to to me, there is a big monument with very large stairs, after handheld panorama, they become round. Does nodal point fix this issue ?

Excellent audio!

wow... 100k subscribers... that is 100k people getting realy bad advise

Thanks for the hike.. It's good for us, and it's good for you..

Hello Mike, thank you very much for this to the point demonstration and the comparison between the different methods by their results! Great location as well. I looking forward to my holiday in Wales beginning end of next week. We are going to see and walk the Pembrokeshire coast path first. Kind regards from Germany, Martin

The pano head Neewer Gimbal Head Panoramic Head $109 is so worth it. I use at night for Astro Milky Way's to do 200+ degree panos set at 15 degree stops using the base stepper. At night you can feel the next step and allows the NR function moving to next stop during NR and a pano at night where as looking at the camera screen and finding the next stop visually is very hard in the dark of night new moon. The other nice thing is there is there are 10 degree up and down prefect for landscape wide but 2 stops high for a vertical milky way. The 15 degree steps is great for lightroom NOW can stitch before the only program to do panos is/was PTGui Pro (once bought good for life of updates) it has more profiles to use. A 12 to 24mm can be used without a parallax rail so the new camera rotator landscape to portrait replacement for a L- bracket can be used without a parallax rail also.

great video, thanks Mike. Enough detail. good audio and not too much music. no flaff.

Do you have a resource on how to combine the images in light room? Is it a feature where lightroom processes the sequence of images automatically, or do you just copy-paste the various images together?

Mike do you check and adjust the light meter for each photo through the panning

You have a nice clear and informative way of explaining things without alot of non essential fluff.

Panos are my favourite images; yep, bought and used tripod leveller and ball head (and even mechanical head for even more accuracy). Manual : hand held and a quick sweep of scene for exposure levels. BB focus then (use focus peaking) then take my series of shots (where necessary I use a tripod etc and exposure bracket each shot > learned this from Henry Turners channel some time ago). Generally works every time. Also loosing from my back pack the other bits of kit lightens my load. I've just 👍 and subscribed ~ good advice from you. I also use LRc; but edit first of the images then select all and 'sync' before pano stitch. Occasionally due to too many images I need to stitch in Photoshop. This is where I could do with some help? How to get PS pano back into my 'working' LRc folder. > thanks for sharing.

Hello Mike, you must have super pano skills doing it hand held! I just got the Andoer ph-720b nodal gimbal rail like in your video. I can’t seem to get the camera in horizontal landscape mode. Is this possible with that Andoer kit? Did you use a L-bracket or fancy adaptors with your Sony on that Andoer multi-row pano equipment.

My goal is to shoot some pano's and in preparation for doing this I have some of the kit you used. My problem is post production. Sadly my copy of Lightroom 5.7 does not stitch images together and I refuse to pay Adobe monthly just for this feature.
May I ask if you know of any software that I can learn to use to create pano's?

Nice debunk of the need for tons of gear. One point to add that I don't see in the first few comments is the need to remove your pol filter. The strength of the polarising effect varies with the angle to the sun and will result in varying exposures even when shooting in manual.

does this work for a high school panoramic picture? What is the proper lens to shoot something like that?

What's the best way to determine how many degrees to pan your ball head for each shot for different focal lengths?

Hi. What camera cage are you using?

I have the problem that my tripod has no spirit level for the horizontal. How do I always get the horizon straight? I often have the problem that I then have a shift in the image when I turn the tripod head.

Thank you for all the content that you have shared. Very useful and practical.

Thank you for taking the time to share this information. I have lately started doing more panos and enjoy it very much. What is your 360 Nodal Pan Head model so I can look it up on Amazon?

Fantastic how-to video! I'm gonna give your hand-held method a try in a couple of weeks.

I really appreciate your effort to hike off and set up the camera for the engaging b roll! Pretty cool to see you get creative with no extra gear!

August 1990 Popular Photography article — parallax-free (single row) panoramas. No PTGUI, just prints, scissors, and tape, with a homemade camera vertical holding bracket and focusing rail. It is online.

15-degree rotation is suitable for a 70 mm full frame lens. 30% overlap, portrait angle of view for 70 mm is about 19.7 degrees, and 4.7degree is for overlap.

Why dont you show us an example with some trees or flowers in the foreplan. You will see the real difference with a nodal.

Thank you Mike, very useful information. This morning I had to try it out and made a handheld camera panorama with nine images stitched together. Used LIghtroom and it came out perfect.

I find the nodal rail useful for woodland stuff but I probably wouldn't take it up a mountain, just excess weight that I'd almost never need.

Thank you for this tutorial. Handheld, is it better to turn the camera or the body? BTW, how did you find the A7 iV performed? I am contemplating on purchasing one .....

Thank you for the great video, Mike. Stay safe.

Hi Mr Mike
Nice video. And a big thank you for keeping us motivated. I get motivated whenever you pushed us to do it.

Hi Mike, thanks for a really excellent video, demonstrating and explaining the different options succinctly. I shoot a lot in forests, so am obliged to mainly use a nodal rail on a ball head. A tripod levelling base was a useful addition and speeded up my setup. For "normal" shots with a lot of detail, I often use a sharp prime lens taking 3-4 pano shots in portrait orientation than just a single shot with a wide zoom lens in landscape orientation.

Hi Mike, great video! I have been playing around with panoramas a bit lately but have a problem when I am taking seascape panoramas. Often when I merge these together you can see the stitching in the waves. What is the best way to deal with wave movement when taking panoramas? Is long exposure to smooth everything out the only way to deal with this?

Nodal rails have no advantage with landscapes where everything is a long way away, I've never had a stitching problem doing handheld in that situation but as soon as there's something like a fence with vertical and horizontal parts or something within a few metres similar a Nodal is best but I only use Microsoft ICE for stitching

Amazing video!!

Thanks Mike! I always wondered what is the difference, thanks for the detailed explanation!

Thanks mike

Excellent info, thanks for posting this video! Can you share what indexing rotator you were using, please? TIA!

Hi,
Personally, I almost always photograph the panorama on at least two lines. It is also good to use bracketing. The main thing is to have a remote trigger. I understand a timer can help but a remote trigger is better.

Fantastic tutorial and very informative without being over the top. Great video!

Thanks Mike, all the best 👍

Panorama demystified at last without so much talk and
with the authority of a professional... Thank you very much.

I just went on a weeklong road trip and shot multiple panos, only one of which I used my tripod for. Capture 1 had zero problems stitching any of them. I got some amazing shots of the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon on this trip! I think the biggest tip is the one you showed about getting the exposure right and switching to manual focus.

Thanks...very helpful Video on Panos!

You know it will be a large file size, can we shoot with compress raw to reduced the size a bit and it will easy for computer to work on that quickly or it is "no-no"