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NOVOFLEX Panorama VR-System Mini Manual

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Text and photo material: Jan Röpenack
Panorama VR-System Mini
Congratulations! By purchasing your
Panorama VR-System Mini you have
acquired a tool, which enables you - to-
gether with a compact DSLR- or mirror-
less system camera, a tripod, a ballhead
and a personal computer - to generate
high quality panoramas simply.
To achieve exceptionally good re-
sults, you should make some ad-
justments before taking your pic-
tures. These instructions will help
familiarize you with the most im-
portant working steps.
Which equipment
is necessary?
Beside your Panorama VR-System Mini, consisting of panorama base
Panorama=Q 48
(1), clamping plate with quick release
bracket
QPL Slim Vertikal
(3) and
Spirit Level
• A digital camera (ideally a compact DSLR or mirrorless system camera with a
standard or wide angle lens)
• A stable tripod (recommended: Novoflex Triopod)
• A ball head or leveling base (recommended: Novoflex MagicBalance)
• A PC (ideally a current computer with a lot of ram and a large hard disk) and a
panorama software (recommended: PanoramaStudio or PTGui)
3
2
1
QPL Slim 200
(2), angle
(4) for the flash shoe, you will require:
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  • Page 1 These instructions will help familiarize you with the most im- portant working steps. Which equipment is necessary? Beside your Panorama VR-System Mini, consisting of panorama base Panorama=Q 48 (1), clamping plate with quick release QPL Slim 200 (2), angle ©...
  • Page 2 How is the panorama created? Step 7: Taking the pictures: Using the stitching technique, the final panorama will be an assembly of a series of individual images. Between these single shots the camera will be rotated around a certain angle. You create your panorama afterwards on the computer using a stitching software e.g.

  • Page 3: Basic Assembly

    Step 6: Camera settings: • For best quality, standardize the exposure in each single frame, meaning choose manual exposure mode. When it is not possible, because the intensity of light Wrong: Turn to the right without panorama head varies between the single exposures strongly, consider the HDR technique using The foreground (flower) moves to the left towards the background autobracketing with your camera.

  • Page 4: Landscape Mode

    On the other hand, if you want to create telephoto panoramas with a limited field Locking screw Headless screw Allan key of view and using long focal lengths, I suggest mounting the camera in landscape Securety pin mode. The advantages are larger increments, what makes the adjustment on the panorama base much easier.
  • Page 5 More ideal is Method A, because you can leave the quick release in a fixed position The tables in this manual are based on an overlap of 20-50% between two single shots and shows the recommended adjustment of the increment selector lever as at the plates rear edge, having full access to the locking screw from behind.

  • Page 6: Preparatory Steps

    The numbers of shots for a complete 360° turn can be selected directly at the In- Set up using method B: Reproducible assembly with the help of the securi- crement Selector Lever. Between two shot, just turn the system to the next click- stop.

  • Page 7: Field Use

    Field use: Preparatory step 3: Bring the camera to a precise vertical position: Step 1: Observe the spirit level on the flash shoe of your camera and use the screw, that Transport: connects the camera body with the angle bracket, for adjusting. For this purpose Common practice is to transport the equipment in two parts: you need a coin or the big Allen key.
  • Page 8 Tip: The angle bracket has an engraved indicator scale on its side in order to set up the right value again in front of the scene. Write down the value you have just found. Preparatory step 5: Forward-Backward Adjustment: Mount the lens, whose nodal point you want to find, to the camera body. When us- ing a zoom lens, set the required focal length.

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