Shooting Panoramas with a Dedicated Bracket

If you are thinking about getting into the business of shooting and stitching panoramas, you need to get yourself a panoramic bracket. I have recently had the pleasure of testing a bracket from a Canadian firm panoramabrackets.com, and was happy I got my hands on it. The product is solidly built, and their 4th generation version is a far improvement from their gen 3 product. This unit is easy to use, it is light, and fairly compact. However, unless you level the tripod base, and have your bracket correctly adjusted to your lens, you will have trouble. I will add a series of tips regarding Pan shooting. Here's a first, get a tripod with a level at its base. When the base is off-level, your ball head, or panhead will follow the curvature and cause your pan to be off center. The longer the pan, the bigger the problem.