Shooting Hand held Panoramas

Step 2 Minimizing Parallax

To minimize the impact of this we want to reduce Parallax as much as possible. Ideally you can use a tripod fitted with a Panorama head. this will rotate the camera about the no parallax point and as the name suggests result in a round of shots in the Panorama that should not have any noticeable parallax issues. If a panorama head is not available then mounting the camera to a normal tripod will introduce some consistent parallax. For handholding the technique of turning is very important as our natural tendency is to rotate around our feet. this will cause some significant parallax issues. One way to overcome this would be to make an effort to rotate around the camera and in fact rotate our feet in a small circle. As shown in the diagram above