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Rotation around lens nodal point
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All panoramic photography requires the camera to rotate round the lens nodal point (the optical centre of the lens). In practice small deviations from this don't give serious problems as long as the size of the scene being photographed is large.
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The majority of the spherical panoramas demonstrated on this website were shot using a standard Nikon CoolPix 990 camera which rotated along the vertical axis of rotation of the tripod (left-right) and along the horizontal axis of rotation (up-down) of the CoolPix camera body pivot. As you can see from the picture on the right this makes for quite a rough approximation of rotation round the lens nodal point but it works quite well for outdoors scenes. In indoors scenes (inside rooms) objects will be closer to the camera and rotating the camera round the lens nodal point becomes more critical. In such cases you may want to consider use of a special panoramic tripod head. |
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