Yes. Several times in the last couple of months, especially during my Arizona vacation. I need to upgrade my PC for such ginormous files, though. Great final image by the way!
Anything you do Attilio looks absolute AWESOME, And I mean anything regarding your superb photos, Their is 3 top notch photographers on UA-cam who I watch and you are one of them... Have a great day and 73s from the UK..
Thanks for sharing this. What is the reason for the leveling base under the ball head, as being a ball head, the ball itself needs to be adjusted to be level?
One small time saving suggestion: Separate each group of images with a picture of something much different than the scene to make it obvious when one group ends and the next starts. This makes it faster to select them in the editor. Something as simple as a picture of your outstretched hand is enough.
Thanks for another great tutorial. I would recommend that even if you plan to do nothing else to the individual raw images before the merge, tick "Enable Profile Corrections" under "Lens Corrections". This has saved a couple of panoramas for me ;)
Attilio Ruffo Lightroom automatically does this when stitching panoramas, if it has a profile for the lens you are using. You can run into trouble if it gets this wrong though. You can test this by applying to a single frame. For my panoramas, Lightroom picks the wrong profile for my Tamron 70-200 2.8 G2 so I have to do this first. However with my Nikon 50mm 1.4D it gets it right. So it's good to know how Lightroom works with your specific gear.
Attilio, you didn't mention your focusing technique. I focus in the middle of the scene and do not refocus for the subsequent shots, since this would change the focal length slightly for every shot which may cause a stitching problem.
Have you found use for a "NODAL PLATE, SLIDER, RAIL?" It seems there's a lot of hype about this but I am not sure with today's powerful software if that piece of equipment really helps unless of course your foreground is super close to the camera? I would love to hear your thoughts and thank you for yet again another great video.
Hi Attilio, Thank you for sharing your knowledge on photography and all of the different aspects of it. I am fairly new at this and greatly appreciate people like you with a wide knowledge base, taking the time to inform or teach others like me who want to learn about there camera and how to make beautiful pictures. Thanks again
Do you need to find the nodal point before making your panorama photos? Is an issue the parallax effect in order to get perfectly aline your panorama photos?
I have tried a few merged panoramas including using bracketed exposures. My next attempt will be to mount my camera on my gimbal and try both the preset panoramas (though the working focal length is very reduced), but also a user defined path where I have set 5 waypoints. Once the exposures are taken, I can rotate the tripod head and repeat for a wider field of view if required.
Thank you so much Attilio for this great video, the stunning image and your good explications! I`ve seen almost all of your Videos and I learned so much. Please keep on doing this fantastic Channel!
Ciao Atilio. Incredible shot and very nice video explaining the technique. I also create some panoramas with vertical shots, but attach the camera to the tripod head (similar to yours) directly, with no extra part. Why do you attach the camera this way, since the ball admites vertical position? Greetings from Spain.
Attilio, I just want commit on this most beautiful pano, I'm just getting started with this adventure and I need all help I can get with this stuff, thanks.
Do you focus for each image? I understand you wouldn't move the focus point. Or would you just focus once than set the camera to manual focus and not focus each shot?
Nice video. Yes, done that too. Nowadays with a 3D pano tilt head. This allows the camera to be slid back as well as left--right, in order for the nodal point of your lens to be exactly in the central rotation point of the head. This way, you get a perfect alignment near to far so stitching is easy - if nothing in the subject moves :)
Hi Attilio, I have to confess...I've been a fan of yours for quite some time now....and fore some reason i find this video amazing....love your content!!!
I did a very wide panoramic shot, like 10-11 pics in landscape mode (basically got a 180 degree) and, while my first photo had the horizon straight, more or less at the center of the shoot, then last one had the horizon almost at 1/4 from the the bottom. I have 3-way head, so I guess it is good both as leveling base and panoramic head, since it has the spirit level and can rotate freely without affecting the other 2 axes?
Hi Attilio! Thank you for another interesting video! But as an engineer, there is just one thing I have to point out. First you put a leveling base on your tripod, and then a ball head... That makes no sense. The ball head can rotate in any direction, so the leveling base is "cancelled out". It would be better to put the pano head right onto the leveling base. Or skip the leveling base, use a ball head, and then level the top of the ball head before mounting the pano head :-) Looking forward to your next video!
Thanks! You have a good point, and I agree that the tripod head could cancel out the leveling base if not leveled as well! I am just used to put the the pano head on the tripod head, even if the tripod head wouldn’t be necessary...
This confused me too, why it was necessary to use a panning head when the ball head itself is capable of panning. What I do is mount my Oben levelling base onto the tripod, then the ballhead. I first get the levelling base level, then level the ball head mount before attaching the camera. I use the ball head to pan. My levelling base just stays on the tripod all the time.
IMO rotating the ball head can introduce more error by slightly changing the camera's tilt. Better to rotate the base and keep the camera's tilt locked. If you have a pan head with a built-in spirit level, you don't need a separate leveling base. OTOH, unless the camera is absolutely parallel to the ground (no up or down tilt), you're still going to have some lateral tilt at either or both ends of the panorama. That's fine. Just allow for some cropping when you compose the pano, as well as adjust the pano mode in Lightroom.
hello Attilio, Pablo here, from Argentina. i ve got a question. What % of your are made taking with panoramic technique, and what % are one single shot. Thanks my friend
Wow!!! Really nice to look your photographic videos. I am really pleased. I love photography but I am totally beginner in this field but by watching your videos i have got more willingness and interest to be a good photographer. I am following your tips that you have given in every video. Thanks and appreciate your every efforts. With Regards.
Just found your channel, and have been binge watching your videos. Great videos! Something here strikes me as odd though. You add a levelling base to ensure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, so that when you take the panorama shots they are all perfectly in line with the horizon. You then add a ball mount, before adding the panorama base. So you made sure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, then added a ball head to ensure that it might not be perfectly level? Imagine tilting the ball head at 45 degrees. Now instead of a nice horizontal pan, you're shooting an arc through the sky. I would think that adding the panorama base below the ball head would be better, or just not use the ball head period. Am I missing something here?
I liked your technique in taking that kind of photos. My questions here are, You used 2 different piece of tripod accessories, the leveling and panoramic base. Are they necessary for taking that kind of shots? And if i don't have any of them are there any alternatives? The second thing is, form where are you generally buying these kind of accessories? Is it from Amazon or from other place? Lastly, how can I measure the 1/3 distance between photos? Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Mohamed! Yes, it is very helpful to use those tools for Panoramic Photos, you can get them through Amazon, I put some links in the video description. You can calculate the 1/3rd overlap between pictures, either by using reference points in the scene, or by using the ruler in the panoramic head...
I thought I'd seen all of your videos, but I must have missed this one. I'm glad I watched it. The panoramic ball head...I need one. Very informative video! Hopefully I can get some decent panoramas.
Thanks for the great video. I have a question I hope you can answer. I just bought a Pan Head and "L" bracket for my Canon Rebel T3I. I have the arca fitting with a center marking on the pan head. The center of the "L" bracket on the camera is not marked either horizontal or vertical and has a slot for mounting on each side. When mounting it in landscape mode I have no trouble determining the center point because of a mark on the camera over the mounting hole, but when trying to mount it in the Portrait position I don't know how to determine the proper point to put it over the pivot point. Is it critical that it be directly over the pivot point as in landscape mode and if so can you describe a way to determine the point to be centered in the arca fitting on the head it? Thanks
Hi Attilio, I really love your work How do you choose the location for you photos? I mean, do you do some research of the places you want to photograph? Thank you!!
Attilio, Great, useful tips. I've taken quite a few panoramic photo's. Your tips will improve me photo's. Thank you again for the informative tutorial. Please keep them coming.
Great video but I have a question on your setup. You put a leveling head on the tripod then a ball head. Doesn’t that negate the leveling base? Also you use a pano head on top of the ball head. Can’t you just use the rotation on the bullhead? It seems the more you add the more likely something can go wrong or am I missing something?
The levelling base is easier than levelling the tripod by adjusting the legs, so useful but not needed. It makes the axis of rotation perfectly vertical, which is the most important part of the pano. If you do this, even if the camera is crooked the pano will still work (but it doesn't look as pretty before you crop).
Thx for this sharing Mr. Ruffo, anyway I still have a question just when you say "shoot 1/3" I first thought it's going to be like 60 degree for 3 pictures then we shoot 180 degree and use that as 3 raw file pics for final adjustment? Turned out, you didn't shoot 3 pics, but it was 8. So my question is what degree difference we should give for each shot we make from one shot to the next for the best final output? If you would please clarify this technique for me ...
Have you tried this technique before?
not sure!
Many times :)
cool!
Yes. Several times in the last couple of months, especially during my Arizona vacation. I need to upgrade my PC for such ginormous files, though. Great final image by the way!
I know, my Mac suffers too...
BEAUTIFUL IMAGE .... GREAT GUIDANCE ON HOW TO CAPTUE LIKE THIS
Anything you do Attilio looks absolute AWESOME, And I mean anything regarding your superb photos, Their is 3 top notch photographers on UA-cam who I watch and you are one of them... Have a great day and 73s from the UK..
Thanks a lot!
Hello Attilo, i love your work. You are a true artist. Robert
Again, impressive. The spirit of an artist the skill of a technician.
Thank You Mark!
Thanks for sharing this. What is the reason for the leveling base under the ball head, as being a ball head, the ball itself needs to be adjusted to be level?
Exactly what I thought... Only use what's needed lol
excellent work, thanks for sharing, it's very inspiring way to shoot nice places. More videos to share, thanks again, i learned a lot from this.
Thanks 🙏
I just watched one of your short videos on how maybe we should think about the artistic aspect as opposed to the technical, just a point to ponder.
Oh... you know, I like that! :-)
Great edit my friend!
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One small time saving suggestion: Separate each group of images with a picture of something much different than the scene to make it obvious when one group ends and the next starts. This makes it faster to select them in the editor. Something as simple as a picture of your outstretched hand is enough.
Cool! :-)
I simply shoot my hand to achieve this- super helpful.
Great idea. Thanks!
Your work is completely amazing thank you for sharing
Very beautiful photo. Love you work!
Thank you Sharon!
Thanks for another great tutorial. I would recommend that even if you plan to do nothing else to the individual raw images before the merge, tick "Enable Profile Corrections" under "Lens Corrections". This has saved a couple of panoramas for me ;)
Thanks Don! That’s a good tip...
Attilio Ruffo Lightroom automatically does this when stitching panoramas, if it has a profile for the lens you are using. You can run into trouble if it gets this wrong though. You can test this by applying to a single frame. For my panoramas, Lightroom picks the wrong profile for my Tamron 70-200 2.8 G2 so I have to do this first. However with my Nikon 50mm 1.4D it gets it right. So it's good to know how Lightroom works with your specific gear.
Great job. Thanks for the clear, concise tutorial!
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I really enjoyed this video, thanks for taking us with you!
Thanks!
Love the Panorama feature in Lightroom... Just getting started with it...
Thank you for this best video
I really appreciate your work
Thank you for all what you do
Beautiful location. Beautiful light.
Thank You Michelle!
Bella panoramica e come al solito sei chiaro e preciso complimenti ancora.
Grazie mille Alberto!
Attilio, you didn't mention your focusing technique. I focus in the middle of the scene and do not refocus for the subsequent shots, since this would change the focal length slightly for every shot which may cause a stitching problem.
Have you found use for a "NODAL PLATE, SLIDER, RAIL?" It seems there's a lot of hype about this but I am not sure with today's powerful software if that piece of equipment really helps unless of course your foreground is super close to the camera?
I would love to hear your thoughts and thank you for yet again another great video.
very good video, thanks. Very helpfull
Not only did you do an amazing job with this panorama but your presentation videoIs alsoFirst quality. Bravo!
Thank you very much Mike!
Hi Attilio, Thank you for sharing your knowledge on photography and all of the different aspects of it. I am fairly new at this and greatly appreciate people like you with a wide knowledge base, taking the time to inform or teach others like me who want to learn about there camera and how to make beautiful pictures. Thanks again
thanks a lot Jan!
Do you need to find the nodal point before making your panorama photos? Is an issue the parallax effect in order to get perfectly aline your panorama photos?
I have tried a few merged panoramas including using bracketed exposures. My next attempt will be to mount my camera on my gimbal and try both the preset panoramas (though the working focal length is very reduced), but also a user defined path where I have set 5 waypoints. Once the exposures are taken, I can rotate the tripod head and repeat for a wider field of view if required.
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Thank you so much Attilio for this great video, the stunning image and your good explications! I`ve seen almost all of your Videos and I learned so much. Please keep on doing this fantastic Channel!
Thank you 🙏
I will be back soon...
hi attilio, why you did not use the nodal point technique in this video maybe you had not to crop a lot your final panorama like you did ?
Great skills ,great pictures .love you from China
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Brilliant job
Thanks for the videos it is pleasure to follow you ,learning allot
Thank You! I appreciate it 👍
Ciao Atilio. Incredible shot and very nice video explaining the technique.
I also create some panoramas with vertical shots, but attach the camera to the tripod head (similar to yours) directly, with no extra part. Why do you attach the camera this way, since the ball admites vertical position?
Greetings from Spain.
Enjoying your videos! Thank you!
Thanks a lot!
Excellent.....Thanks....
Love n Regards
Attilio, I just want commit on this most beautiful pano, I'm just getting started with this adventure and I need all help I can get with this stuff, thanks.
U r not telling a story only through ur pictures but also through the way u shoot, 😎
Thank you 🙏
I would recommend a cheap nodal slider. Your stitch will come out more accurate I have found
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Wow Super captured picture then Nicely Edited
Loving your photography
Thank You 🙏
Do you shoot in manual focus? How can you tell if you are overlapping 1/3 over the prior photo?
Lovely panoramic picture another great tutorial 👍🏻
Thank You dear Julie 🙏
how did you focus for this? one for each shot or you focused once and used the same focus distance in subsequent shots?
Thanks sir this was very good details
Beautiful capture and yes more of the same please. Nicely done 👌
Thanks 🙏
your editing skill is amazing. I would say, you are a digital Rembrandt. You see things in the photo that are hidden and bring them out. Fantastic.
Thank you so much!
lol
Do you focus for each image? I understand you wouldn't move the focus point. Or would you just focus once than set the camera to manual focus and not focus each shot?
Nice video. Yes, done that too. Nowadays with a 3D pano tilt head. This allows the camera to be slid back as well as left--right, in order for the nodal point of your lens to be exactly in the central rotation point of the head. This way, you get a perfect alignment near to far so stitching is easy - if nothing in the subject moves :)
Thanks. Yes that would be the ideal setup...
What is ment by Cylindrical and Spherical option during editing , please mention its importance and why
Very informative... Great output 👏, thanks for taking time to create such videos...
Thanks a lot!
Very creative. Thx.
do you have to fix the exposure for every shot in a panorama?
Got it, thank you! I enjoy your contributions very much
I appreciate it! 🙏
Hi Attilio, all of good to you,
You have a way to explain, as a very good teacher, everything seems easy, congratulations.
Thanks a lot! 🙏
I'm in love With U from the first time I saw Ur work😘
ThankYou 🙏🙏🙏
Hi Attilio, I have to confess...I've been a fan of yours for quite some time now....and fore some reason i find this video amazing....love your content!!!
Thanks a lot! I really appreciate it 🙏
Always great stuff, always very inspiring and useful tips
Thanks Ramon! 🙏
Very interesting and useful. What lens are best for panoramic?
thanks Andrew...check out this video, I talk about the lenses ua-cam.com/video/If7n4PmkCU4/v-deo.html
Great video Attilio. I enjoy watching your way of working in the field and feeling your passion for photography 👌
Thanks Andy!
Yes, I did enjoy seeing the process you used to take, merge and edit this photo. I also really enjoyed the panorama posted on Instagram earlier today.
I appreciate Stephen! Thank you
wow, thanks for the guide, your video helps me a lot... I'll gonna try to some panoramic photos....
I did a very wide panoramic shot, like 10-11 pics in landscape mode (basically got a 180 degree) and, while my first photo had the horizon straight, more or less at the center of the shoot, then last one had the horizon almost at 1/4 from the the bottom. I have 3-way head, so I guess it is good both as leveling base and panoramic head, since it has the spirit level and can rotate freely without affecting the other 2 axes?
You still need a leveling base in my opinion to make sure to keep your image straight while rotating...
Hi Attilio! Thank you for another interesting video! But as an engineer, there is just one thing I have to point out. First you put a leveling base on your tripod, and then a ball head... That makes no sense. The ball head can rotate in any direction, so the leveling base is "cancelled out". It would be better to put the pano head right onto the leveling base. Or skip the leveling base, use a ball head, and then level the top of the ball head before mounting the pano head :-) Looking forward to your next video!
Thanks! You have a good point, and I agree that the tripod head could cancel out the leveling base if not leveled as well!
I am just used to put the the pano head on the tripod head, even if the tripod head wouldn’t be necessary...
This confused me too, why it was necessary to use a panning head when the ball head itself is capable of panning. What I do is mount my Oben levelling base onto the tripod, then the ballhead. I first get the levelling base level, then level the ball head mount before attaching the camera. I use the ball head to pan. My levelling base just stays on the tripod all the time.
Actually is the ball head that is unnecessary, if you want you can mount the pano head directly on the leveling base...
IMO rotating the ball head can introduce more error by slightly changing the camera's tilt. Better to rotate the base and keep the camera's tilt locked. If you have a pan head with a built-in spirit level, you don't need a separate leveling base.
OTOH, unless the camera is absolutely parallel to the ground (no up or down tilt), you're still going to have some lateral tilt at either or both ends of the panorama. That's fine. Just allow for some cropping when you compose the pano, as well as adjust the pano mode in Lightroom.
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Doesn't parallax come into effect since you are rotating based on the body of the camera rather than the entrance pupil of the lens?
Yes it does, but you will not really notice when you don’t have an element in the foreground..
@@AttilioRuffo Ok. Thanks
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Great video. Thanks for sharing. I noticed you use lightroom a lot. Why not photoshop?
Thanks! Io use photoshop sometimes, but I do prefer LR user interface
Thank you. I have a question about using aperture priority and with f/8 or f/11. Where do you prefer to have focus in the photo?
Oh good question and I have a video about that, coming soon.. 👍
hello Attilio, Pablo here, from Argentina. i ve got a question. What % of your are made taking with panoramic technique, and what % are one single shot. Thanks my friend
Very nice edition
Thanks 🙏
I will try this for sure! thanks for sharing...
Thanks 🙏
Wow!!! Really nice to look your photographic videos. I am really pleased. I love photography but I am totally beginner in this field but by watching your videos i have got more willingness and interest to be a good photographer. I am following your tips that you have given in every video. Thanks and appreciate your every efforts. With Regards.
Thank you very much! Go out and shoot... :-)
Thanks! When edit your video in this video what program do you use.
Thanks! I use final cut pro
Thanks 👍
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Very good easy listening 👍
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Just found your channel, and have been binge watching your videos. Great videos!
Something here strikes me as odd though. You add a levelling base to ensure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, so that when you take the panorama shots they are all perfectly in line with the horizon. You then add a ball mount, before adding the panorama base. So you made sure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, then added a ball head to ensure that it might not be perfectly level? Imagine tilting the ball head at 45 degrees. Now instead of a nice horizontal pan, you're shooting an arc through the sky.
I would think that adding the panorama base below the ball head would be better, or just not use the ball head period. Am I missing something here?
I don't think a ball head is needed if you have a panorama base on a leveling base. A leveling base, ballhead, and panning base seems redundant.
He had not the equipment at the optical center
Great video but a very quick question - why is the camera vertical and not horizontal? Do you always shoot panoramic this way?
Yes I do!
do you change focus if there a changing in depth of field when taking panoramic photo?
I try to keep the same focus and same depth of field, the merging will be smoother...
Great info!
I am planning on relocating from Lagos to a city in Canada for a while, and always look forward to your videos.
Good technique, would you consider using a shutter cable release?
Oh yes!!!
I liked your technique in taking that kind of photos.
My questions here are,
You used 2 different piece of tripod accessories, the leveling and panoramic base.
Are they necessary for taking that kind of shots? And if i don't have any of them are there any alternatives?
The second thing is, form where are you generally buying these kind of accessories? Is it from Amazon or from other place?
Lastly, how can I measure the 1/3 distance between photos?
Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Mohamed! Yes, it is very helpful to use those tools for Panoramic Photos, you can get them through Amazon, I put some links in the video description. You can calculate the 1/3rd overlap between pictures, either by using reference points in the scene, or by using the ruler in the panoramic head...
what tripod is that that he is using? the link in the description is broken
very enjoyable and great info, thank you
Thanks 🙏
Thank you very much for the invaluable information, very well presented. Cheers
Thanks Chris!
I thought I'd seen all of your videos, but I must have missed this one. I'm glad I watched it. The panoramic ball head...I need one. Very informative video! Hopefully I can get some decent panoramas.
Thanks 🙏
Hi Attilio, I may have missed it, what lens and focal length were you using?
I used my 70-200mm, at 70mm
thank-you
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Thank you very much. Inspiring video, great picture.
Thanks Jurgen!
Thanks for the great video. I have a question I hope you can answer.
I just bought a Pan Head and "L" bracket for my Canon Rebel T3I. I have
the arca fitting with a center marking on the pan head. The center of
the "L" bracket on the camera is not marked either horizontal or
vertical and has a slot for mounting on each side. When mounting it in
landscape mode I have no trouble determining the center point because of
a mark
on the camera over the mounting hole, but when trying to mount it in
the Portrait position I don't know how to determine the proper point to
put it over the pivot point. Is it critical that it be directly over the
pivot point as in landscape mode and if so can you describe a way to
determine the point to be centered in the arca fitting on the head it?
Thanks
Hi, Atílio! And about parallax effect? No word?
The parallax effect will only effect the photo if you have something in the foreground, then you will need a nodal slide...
Really it's very useful.... thank u sir....
Thanks 🙏
I haven't seen someone do it in A priority yet. Looks great!!
If you are with me, yes I did but with Nodal slider comes out much better
I usually matrix metre then switch to manual, turn off auto focus,,,, and fire,,,,, same exposure for every shot,,, thanks for the video 📹, x
Thanks Robert!
Lovely to make contact with you attillio, thanks for all the hard work you have done,, Bob
Nice to meet you! :-)
what a great image treatment !! I can never do that!
Thank you 😊
Nice and usefull video, grazie!
Thanks a lot Etienne!!!
Hi Attilio, I really love your work
How do you choose the location for you photos?
I mean, do you do some research of the places you want to photograph?
Thank you!!
Thanks Carlos! Yes I do some research and planning ahead, I might do a video about that!
Excellent!!
Love to see it.
Thanks
Carlos Garcia Alonso 👍
Really really lots of thanks.
Attilio,
Great, useful tips.
I've taken quite a few panoramic photo's. Your tips will improve me photo's.
Thank you again for the informative tutorial.
Please keep them coming.
Thanks a lot Mike!
Thank you for posting and sharing.
Thank you Miguel!
I use a ball head but no panoramic head so I need onr of them. I will test using a 45mmPC on my D800E or D700
Great video but I have a question on your setup. You put a leveling head on the tripod then a ball head. Doesn’t that negate the leveling base? Also you use a pano head on top of the ball head. Can’t you just use the rotation on the bullhead? It seems the more you add the more likely something can go wrong or am I missing something?
Thanks. Yes, I could just put the pano head on top of the leveling base...
The levelling base is easier than levelling the tripod by adjusting the legs, so useful but not needed. It makes the axis of rotation perfectly vertical, which is the most important part of the pano. If you do this, even if the camera is crooked the pano will still work (but it doesn't look as pretty before you crop).
I do find it very convenient!
very good work
Interesting. Can you stack images in Lightroom?
Yes you can!
Excellent! Thanks.
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Amazing Video, thank you for sharing to us, I will try later.
Thx for this sharing Mr. Ruffo, anyway I still have a question just when you say "shoot 1/3" I first thought it's going to be like 60 degree for 3 pictures then we shoot 180 degree and use that as 3 raw file pics for final adjustment? Turned out, you didn't shoot 3 pics, but it was 8. So my question is what degree difference we should give for each shot we make from one shot to the next for the best final output?
If you would please clarify this technique for me ...