Here is my first real pano:
I ordered a KingPano bracket late last year and it took AGES to get here. This is the first time I have used it.
The images were taken during the middle of the day, so the light is quite harsh.
Cheers
Gecko
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First pano - Maroochy River - KingPano
Hello all:
Here is my first real pano: I ordered a KingPano bracket late last year and it took AGES to get here. This is the first time I have used it. The images were taken during the middle of the day, so the light is quite harsh.
Cheers Gecko Last edited by gecko on Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:46 am, edited 1 time in total.
Nikon D70, SB600, Benbo Trekker, LSII, KingPano and a lot to learn!
Nice Shot Gecko, and a lovely spot. What is a King Pano bracket? I think i can guess but i may be way off the mark.
Craig Craig
Lifes journey is not to arrive at our grave in a well preserved body but, rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Wow what a ride." D70s, D300, 70-300ED, 18-70 Kit Lens, Nikkor 105 Micro. Manfrotto 190Prob Ball head. SB800 x 2.
The KingPano bracket allows the camera to be mounted so that it pivots about the lens' nodal point which reduces parallex in the images and makes for easy stitching into panoramas. I used Panorama Factory V4 to do the job in this case.
Check out the KingPano website: http://www.kingpano.com/ It is a good bit of gear, though fairly bulky and I'm probably reaching the upper limit of weight for my tripod with this setup. These are my first attempts at this style of photography - there have been many inspirational panos posted recently..... Cheers Gecko Nikon D70, SB600, Benbo Trekker, LSII, KingPano and a lot to learn!
Gecko
What I thought it was, but i can't help thinking this type of bracket is overkill (depending on the accuracy of the work you want to do). It does seem to allow a high degree of accuarcy and sophistication. But could a straight flash bracket that allows you to mount the camera on the tripod head so the nodal point is over the centre of the tripod pan, work? Sounds confusing to me, i hope i have explaned myself well enough to give you a mental picture. Do you mind if i ask what sort of price it was? Did you take the first one from up near the motorway bridge? Craig Craig
Lifes journey is not to arrive at our grave in a well preserved body but, rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Wow what a ride." D70s, D300, 70-300ED, 18-70 Kit Lens, Nikkor 105 Micro. Manfrotto 190Prob Ball head. SB800 x 2.
Yes, a straight bracket would work and I experimented last year with building my own out of bits from Bunnings.
Check out this discussion: http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?t=990&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=diy+pano&start=0 Unfortunately the images don't seem to be working anymore. My DIY results were not satisfactory and so I decided to purchase a ready made unit. The KingPano is the cheapest option that I could find and makes taking images in portrait mode a breeze. From memory I paid $149 US for it - and it took about 2 months to get here 
Cheers Gecko Nikon D70, SB600, Benbo Trekker, LSII, KingPano and a lot to learn!
Had a look at the Kingpano bracket site. The bracket looks good, not too expensive & simple to use. How do you find it for ease of use. I am wondering specifically about how it rotates, can you select a set number of rotations in degrees? You seem to have gotten a good result with it. Do you have a link to large size images Gecko? I am getting a great result stitching with Panorama Factory too. It always helps if you have set up the camera correctly before shooting.
_________________ Cheers, Paul
Hello Paul
I would rate the ease of use as pretty good - but I am still getting used to it. I will take some photos of the set up and post them. Setting up is fairly painless: I keep my Kingpano pretty much assembled and ready to go (toss it in my daypack). The base of the Kingpano screws onto the top of tripod. There are 3 thumbwheels that are used to level it. These are quick and easy to use. The base has a built in bubble level thingy. The camera has a bracket on it permanently - the supplied mounting bracket does not suit the bottom of the D70 very well and sticks out on one side which looks a bit odd. The camera bracket attaches to the Kingpano and you have to get the placement of this right. The website has the measurements for various Nikon lenses and the Kingpano has inscribed rulers along the necessary edges. The whole unit can rotate with click stops for angles. I have not done any fancy calculations yet - the few panos that I have done so far, I have just looked thru the view finder (grid lines turned on) and rotate so that I overlap about 1/3 of previous image. Prior to getting the pano head, I tried a few panos either hand held or using the tripod with no nodal point considerations at all and found that Panorama Factory V4 did a very good job. Having the pano head seems to result in imperceptable stitching (to my dodgy eye anyway)!! Anyway - I'll grab some images of the D70 on the KingPano to post in the next day or so.... Cheers Gecko Nikon D70, SB600, Benbo Trekker, LSII, KingPano and a lot to learn!
glad you got the king pano finally.
I prefer the second shot although the first shows the capabilities. Steve check out my image gallery @
http://photography.avkomp.com/gallery3
Let me ask a slightly obvious question. Where did you shoot from. I live on that stretch of the river.
"The good thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing respectable"
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I think you're in shot actually OP 
On a more serious note they are good panos , but, the horizon in number 2 is a bit distracting due to the slight angle and in teh 1st there again the horizon seems slightly "wavy" just above the point 1/3rd across from the left of teh island but it might be an optical delusion due to teh curve in the water passage  Cheers
Mark  http://www.photographicaustralia.com
http://www.trekaboutphotography.com He who dies with the most lenses wins...
Adam I hope that you are not amongst those who ignore the 6 knot speed limit and go past me place on the plane!!!!
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The images were taken from the north eastern corner, 13th floor of Banyandah Towers.
I didn't use the pano head for the 2nd image. It was my crappy old 300mm zoom on a tripod. I didn't notice the crooked horizon - but now it is so obvious! Nikon D70, SB600, Benbo Trekker, LSII, KingPano and a lot to learn!
Here's what the KingPano looks like:
(Images taken with old digital point and shoot) 
The tripod is a Benbo Trekker. 
With the D70 attached and set at the nodal point for kit lens @ 18mm. I took some more shots but they are not loading into smugmug for some reason.... Cheers Gecko Nikon D70, SB600, Benbo Trekker, LSII, KingPano and a lot to learn!
First Pano - Maroochy River - KingPano
But wait there's more:
So now I have taken more images OF my pano head than I have WITH it!
Cheers Gecko Nikon D70, SB600, Benbo Trekker, LSII, KingPano and a lot to learn!
Nice looking setup Gecko
"The good thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing respectable"
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