type of pan

[Al MacLeod]

What do you call a pan where the camera rotates around the end of the lens instead of at the tripod screw?
You put the camera in a circle with the end of the lens at the center of the circle and rotate the circle...null pan or something like that.

 

[Jeff Anderson]

nodal pan?

 

[Al MacLeod]

That's it...I was search "node pan" and getting nowhere.
Thanks.

 

[simonbrauer]

Try to search NODAL POINT. That is a point in the lens where you dont have any distortion (parallax errors), each lens has a nodal point ( so first you have to determinate which is the nodal point of the lens you are using, you can see something here : archive.bigben.id.au/tutorials/360/photo/nodal.html). That technique is the same used for 360 panoramic still photography.

Simon Brauer