Place a broom handle stick at the far end and a short stick in front
of the camera.
Looking
through the view finder to align both far and near objects..
1st shot
Center both objects
2nd shot 45° left
3rd shot 45° Right
Adjust your camera forward and backward until the center of front
object does not move away from the distant object.
Be sure to mark or index the pan head and the camera bottom.
Here
you see the center of tripod rotation is directly below the lens gold
ring.
The
center of the lens must be directly (left to right) over the top of the
tripod center point.
In this case the Canon lens center point is 40mm to the inside face
of the vertical bracket. (right mouse click on the image and save it to
your hard drive and zoom in to see the measurement.
Back
view
All
images are taken in Portrait (long side up)
4
images make this final stitched image. Disregard the uneven color
blending. This is just for demonstration.
