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- Page 1 QuickPan ® Panoramic Tripod Head User’s Guide - V1.4 - Feb 2007...
- Page 2 QuickPan Rotator with Optional Twin-Axis Adapter and Standard Camera Bracket...
- Page 3 1/4” or 3/8” tripod threads. cen ter of the tripod head. Earlier models used The latest QuickPan IV Ro ta tor Base (Aug 04) an aluminum bracket while recent models use a will also ac cept older Kaidan camera brackets high-strength composite material (inset).
- Page 4 Rotator Housing. indexing ring. Also be sure plunger on the QuickPan III. Be sure to use only the that the plunger is not set stainless steel ball plungers (available from Kaidan) on deep enough as this will cause the QuickPan IV rotators.
- Page 5 Tripod threaded bushing adapter Mounting camera bracket To mount your camera bracket The QuickPan III / IV Rotator Bases comes with a tripod adapter bushing which ac- onto the rotator loosen the clamp commodates both 1/4 inch and 3/8 inch lever at the bottom of the camera tri pod mounts.
- Page 6 The fore-aft adjustment is made por tion of the Ver ti cal Bracket by loosening the camera knob on the QuickPan Rotator to wards the rear of the camera. and slid ing the camera along the slot. There are camera adjustment...
- Page 7 Spherical Camera Bracket - Camera Mount ing Mounting your camera on the Spherical Bracket The Spherical Camera Mounting that are provided for you to help Brack et has a ro tat ing swing arm locate and po si tion the camera. These which is held into po si tion by large are also helpful when you want to black locking knob.
- Page 8 Be sure to wise. tight en the clamp lever to lock the QuickPan Rotator with Standard Camera Bracket brack et in place. and optional Twin-Axis Adapter.
- Page 9 Nodal Point What is it and how do I fi nd it? This is one of the most frequently about six inches away from your asked questions when it comes to open eye. Rock your head from stitcher-based panorama creation. side to side.
- Page 10 If you’re using with a faraway ob ject (tele phone pole). As you ro tate the camera record the settings. The QuickPan a multirow head such as the from side-to-side there should be no relative move ment be tween...
- Page 11 Nodal Point (continued) What is it and how do I fi nd it? comes to the Fore-Aft adjustment, you won’t be able to look through the viewfi nder to determine the proper setting since the viewfi nder is a separate optical path that doesn’t really “see”...
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Page 12: Shooting Panoramas
This is pretty common since many cameras in their QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, QuickPan III. You should use a tripod that is have mounting screws that are not in the Apple recommended that the images sturdy, ideally one that has a center support center of the base. - Page 13 Shooting Panoramas (continued) How do I begin? stairstepping of images as you progress rotation plane and the camera/CCD is not around the panorama. Stairstepping has rotated, slight variations in level as the head nothing to do with the state of the entire rotates is generally not a problem.
- Page 14 Information in this manual is subject to change with out notice and does not rep re sent prob lem with your Kaidan prod uct de vel ops during the war ran ty pe ri od, im me di ate ly Items Part of Special Bundle a com mit ment on the part of Kaidan.