Setting Up The Digital Camera - Roundshot VR Drive Instruction Manual

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Setting up the digital camera

Instruction Manual Roundshot VR Drive version 2.03 – April 2012 – © by Seitz Phototechnik AG / Switzerland www.roundshot.ch
Always use manual exposure.
When using automatic exposure the images will
have entirely different exposure throughout the
panorama and will be difficult to blend the images
together in the stitching software.
Always use manual focusing.
When using automatic focusing the focusing will be
different for every image, making it very difficult to
stitch the panorama.
Also, a change in focus changes the effective focal
length and the nodal point.
Use a fast CF card with enough capacity.
When using a compact flash card with slower write
speed, the images captured by the camera cannot
be saved fast enough and some images may get
delayed or omitted.
This is especially relevant when using the VR Drive
"speed" mode.
Set the white balance to a fixed value.
With white balance set to "Auto" every image will
have a different colour tone, making the stitching of
the panorama difficult.
This is particularly important for HDR where every
image must have exactly the same white balance.
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