I've been thinking about these too for quite some time. There's
another, much lower cost competitor in the "Panosaurus"... a value
engineered creation at $75.95. <http://gregwired.com/pano/pano.htm>
But, like the Nodal Ninja it has a low weight limit of 3.2 lbs. That's
not much but even a 5D can come in under that limit when fitted out with
some lightweight OM primes. The 200/4 is about as heavy as you can go.
The lens plus a filter and adapter is just a hair over the limit. But
the Panosaurus looks a shoe-in for a small camera like the A1.
The Jasper engineering model is tempting because it looks so well built.
There's no weight limit specified but it doesn't look as though I
could likely exceed whatever it is. Multi-row panos could be a problem
though unless taken from a fair distance since there is no provision for
maintaining the no-parallax-position once the camera is tilted up or
down. Still the error introduced by tilting would be fairly small
relative to the total offset needed when level.
Chuck Norcutt
Jay Drew wrote:
> I am thinking of jumping into doing panorama (obligatory OM content this would
> be with OM series with various lenses, fisheye to short telephoto). In my
> treks
> through cyber space I've come across the Jasper Engineering head.
>
> http://www.stereoscopy.com/jasper/panorama.html
>
> It looks to be of a sturdy design (and the other modestly priced heads seem to
> have a lower weight limit (panosaurus, kingpano).
>
> The Nodal Ninja http://www.nodalninja.com/ has a stated 4lb limit.
>
> Anyone use any of these (or others in the $200 price range or less) and can
> comment? I recognize that the Jasper has a more difficult time of doing
> multi-row panos but I don't know if I will be doing a lot of that.
>
> Jay
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