2. Get the best accuracy from your Pano-head.

3. Get started in PanoraMacrophotography.

4. Let's put our camera on the pole position...

5. How to better insert the Nadir shot.

6. Probably the slimmest indented rotator for a panorama head

7. How to make a pano from only three slanted shots with the Sigma 8mm on a monopode (to be translated soon from French)

8. Entertainment: "Monster Garage" could have made this weird looking panohead

9. Impossible challenge: To make and render a complete 360x180deg perfect panorama with only three photos and Realviz's Stitcher 4

10. An accurate but home-made Spherical Panorama Head.

11. Smart-Crop your source images to get sharper Panorama: Tutorial.

12. A little Quiz and some do-it-yourself experiment.

13. Comparison between two panographer's fisheye lenses: Sigma 8mm Vs Nikkor 10.5mm

14. Work around the lack of aperture ring on the Nikkor 10.5mm lens when it is adapted to a Canon EOS camera.

15. Automatic Stitching: a short report on comparison testing of Stitcher 5.5 Unlimited and PTGui 5.8

16. Another (no very scientific) blending applications comparison study.

17. Auto-stitching of two hemispherical images: three S/W Comparison test.

18-a. Test results preview of the Tokina 10 -17mm fisheye zoom lens and an intricate panorama making with it. "How to" for a clean shave of the sun shade.

18-b. Comparison of intricate panorama making with one FF camera (EOS 5D2) and two fisheye zoom lenses (Tokina 10-17 mm and Canon 8-15 mm); AutoPano Giga and PTGui Pro were used to complete the comparison.

19. Study of the influence of light wavelength on Chromatic Aberration (C.A.) for fisheye images + comparison of TCA on different fisheye lenses. A detailed study of C.A. on a special case (Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye + Canon EOS 5D).

20. Lateral Color a.k.a. Transverse Color Aberration (TCA) myth and reality.

21. Three different Flash editor / players for panorama publication

22. Plea for Double-Shot rehabilitation

23. Very short focal Fisheye lenses and Stitching/Blending Double-Shot (DS) images (3 parts article)

24. One-Shot cheap solution?

25. What's the possible ultimate image quality of a panorama made with 2-shots?

26. What is the minimum Angle of View required from the circular image to make 2-shots?

26. Some panoramas shot in very tight places: In the kitchen, the tureen . More to come...

27. Put an easel on your giant pole to help shooting steady a subject at close range.

28. Review of the new Samyang 8 mm fisheye lens (aka Polar 8 mm, Bower 8 mm, Vivitar 7 mm, Falcon 8 mm, etc.)

29. The No-Parallax Point theory is not applicable to fisheye lenses: a Least-Parallax Point (LPP) theory is therefore introduced.

30.The limit line between stitched images of a blended panorama may be not where one thinks them to be.

31. The shape of the in-focus zone for fisheyes is drawn on a color coded 2D map.

32. Possibly the fastest way to set the LPP with a Laser Level or with a Laser Pointer.

32. Five blenders facing a single (oddly exposed) image.

33. Adjusting the location of the vertical arm of the panohead (the camera being switched-off)!

34. A short page about the new extremely wide-angle Samyang 14 mm standard lens.

35. The Entrance Pupil moves also in standard lenses as well...

36. To make full panorama of very high Image Quality with a rectilinear lens and only 8-9 shots!

37. EF 8-15 mm f4 L: review of the new Canon Fisheye Zoom

38. Study of Flare (a.k.a. Veiling Glare): the causes and the effects.

Welcome!

My wish is to share my experience on topics that I think usefull to those who stitch panoramas from photographies for pleasure or for a living.

thobymichel (at) wanadoo (dot) fr

1. Locate the nodal point of a fisheye lens.

Nodal point of the SIGMA 8mm f:4 EX FishEye.