From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas

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Building the GigaPan platform

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From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas

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Building the GigaPan platform

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- Now, it's up to you how you connect this. Generally speaking, I actually shoot in the regular landscape orientation, but you can do portrait. Align that up, and tighten it. Now what becomes important here, I'll just turn this a little bit so it's easier to see, is you need to adjust this unit so it's properly centered. I can adjust where this falls, and want we want to do, it's that word coming back again, is take advantage of the nodal point. So, with this prime lens, that's going to be about where the lens connects to the camera. And I need to center that. So Levi, can you do me a favor here? I'm going to just move this, and then you're going to lock that down, down there. And that looks good. I'm just looking across the center of the struts here to line it up. Good? - Yep. - Excellent. So we tighten it down a reasonable amount so it doesn't slip, but not so tight that we can't use it. All right, I'm just going to swing this back. There we go. Of course, I moved the tripod, so I…

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