Combo Portrait/Panorama Bracket for Medium SLR Cameras Review

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(More customer reviews)This product was just what I was looking for: a straightforward way to shoot panoramas in portrait mode without parallax issues. We're about to remodel our home and I wanted to create 360° views of our rooms to remember "how they used to be" before we changed them.

Why shoot portrait mode?
If you get interested in shooting panoramas or 360° views that are stitched together in Photoshop or some other program, you'll find that you want to shoot in portrait orientation and that all books on the topic advise you to do so (Scott Kelby, et al).It gives you more vertical view and it gives the viewer a much stronger sense of "being there". You make up for the narrower horizontal view by stitching more pictures together.

What are parallax effects?
I'm sure that I'm not technically describing this right, but when you tip your camera to a portrait orientation on your tripod and start turning it to take a panorama, the camera isn't actually rotating around a fixed point. It's traveling in a circle around the center of the tripod.That's bad. With my Canon 7D on a Manfrotto 489RC2 tripod head, that circle is about 12 inches in diameter.The problem is that the pictures can't be stitched together cleanly because they weren't all taken from the same location.That's parallax effects.If you're making a panorama of a distant horizon, the 12 inches of travel isn't much of a problem.If you're shooting building interiors, the panorama won't work at all with that much travel.

The solution is a pano braket that positions the camera sensor director above the center of the tripod while holding it in a portrait orientation. I looked at the Manfrotto 303 Pano head and the Manfrotto 303PLUS, but they are $400+.This bracket is $99 and it solves the problem perfectly.It's black annodized aluminum, compact, and fits easily in my camera bag.Manfrotto makes great products, but I didn't need all the complexity, size, and expense of the 303.The Panofix does only one thing and it does it well.I love that.Nails.

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Product Description:
Combination portrait and panoramic bracket. Adapts tripod mount and shifts rotating axis to front of lens, in order to eliminate parallax error. FREE bubble level, and stitching software.

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