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DIY panohead. DIY panorama bracket. DIY pano bracket for lx1. Spherical Fisheye solutions for Canon A series digital camera. RAYNOX DCR-FE 180pro spherical fisheye bracket lens holder for professional and travle use. Spherical Fisheye brackets for Nikon FC-E9 and FC-E8 Fisheye lens spherical panorama and panoramic photography. Small = Pocket Sized..! You can litterally stuff the entire bracket in the pocket of a pair of Levis. What Cameras Work with these brackets..? The easy answer is "pretty much any camera you can find a way to mount behind a Nikon FC-E9 or FC-E8 fisheye lens. * Note, I now also have brackets for these popular lenses. - SIGMA 8mm - NIKON 10.5mm - RAYNOX 180pro - RAYNOX 185pro The Panorama bracket was designed to use the Nikon FC-E9 fisheye converter lens. This lens naturally works well with most Nikon Digital cameras; however it is worth noting that it works equally well with many other brands provided you can screw the lens to the front of the digital camera., Most new digital cameras have a way of mounting an "extension tube" for filters and add-on lenses; it is easy to get an adaptor filter ring at your local photo store for fitting the Nikon FC-E9 to almost any camera.
You'll also need either a step-up or a step-down ring. Minolta Z-3 Olympus E20 & E10 Olympus 5050 SONY 717 Sony R1. Open Camera Controller Introduction. Most cameras are designed for a typical user who just takes vacation photos, not the specialized needs of those interested in the process of photography. Hardcore users like us need more than the final picture spit out as four-by-six snapshots to be emailed to family and friends.
Rick from EdenFX uses Open Camera Control to turbocharge his Mark 5D II on set. How does the Open Camera Controller compare? In the time since we created the OCC, there have been many attempts to add new camera abilities with hacks or attachments, each with advantages and drawbacks. CHDK, for example, is a firmware mod for Canon cameras that adds many new features, but only to a limited selection of consumer-grade camera models. Hopefully all of these limitations might be overcome by future releases, and with any luck the developers are paying attention to what’s going on here and listening to our needs. It’s our hope that someday many cameras will contain a user-programmable computer operating system. Homemade Camera Panoramic Head. The following post about creating a polycarbonate panoramic head was written by Barry Young.
It is a slick design that uses semi-fixed drilled holes for vertical panning and polycarbonate for an even slicker look. In Barry’s words: Both of my DSLRs, an Olympus E1 and a Sigma SD10, are somewhat limited (by today’s standards) in the number of megapixels they churn out. That doesn’t mean that I intend to upgrade them any time soon. Occasionally though I want to capture a particular scene in the highest resolution I can and so, like many other photographers, I too have had a go at creating my own DIY panoramic head.
As you can see it is very much like many others you will find on the net, the main difference being that it is made of 12mm transparent polycarbonate, which makes it look slightly different from the norm. The Bits Most of the raw materials were sourced on Ebay, except the nuts, bolts and the bracket. The main material used is the 12mm transparent polycarbonate. The build was on!