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Or as Mike observed the architecture shot. Or a large stitched shot up at the Grand Canyon.

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It was several hundred shots stitched together - that is the perfect situation for a full pano head. Microsoft use to have a demo video for ICE where they shot the Golden Gate from the north headlands. Yes it will fix the parallax errors at the source, but again I find that you can shoot around the problems most of the time. I see it as more of an 'accounting' systems so that I don't have holes or voids in various places.

Using a full blown pano head is great if you are shooting with a long lens and taking hundreds of shots that will need to be stitched into a single image.

The Acratech GP ballhead or the Acra Swiss P0 works well here.

Most of my panos are a single row, or two rows and a 'turn table' sitting on top of the ball head solves the problem with no additional baggage at all, and it really speeds up the process.

But I saved it by making it two smaller stitched panos. When I stitched it, that was the parallax problem that ruined the entire shot. I did not think too much about it and shot the pano. Among the landscaping around the parking lot was a newly planted tree. I was up in Sedona a couple of years ago and shot a pano from a parking lot. When there is something in the foreground that is pretty isolated from the background - by distance, move a bit so that you really do not need to deal with it.Now, having said that - there are a few things that you can do to help the situation. This is a prime example of just shooting it right the first time - is the best approach.

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From a software perspective, your options are pretty limited. In terms of software handling parallax errors, there is only so much you can do. Maybe you can get creative and save yourself the pano head headache. Sometimes it is possible in post to hide the parallax misalignment of an image in a less conspicuous place, such as a dark tree or shadowy area.

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However, if architecture is your subject and you have close lines in the shot, you may find it worth the hassle.Ĭan you post an example of the images you are shooting? I find the latest version of Photoshop extremely capable in stitching as well as freeware Hugin, which allow manual placing of control points for tricky areas of match up. I find them destabilzing to a tripod system, clumsy, and add excessive weight and time to an outing, for a marginal improvement of parallax. Would anyone be aware of a photo stitching software that is successful at coping with parallax errors, so that it would not be necessary to use a pano-head anymore?I shoot many panos and have no use for a nodal correction type head. However, while I don't mind carrying a compact carbon tripod, I don't often use this pano-head because it makes the setup significantly larger and heavier. Years ago, I purchased a pano-head with the goal to stitch images as a mean to make panorama or high resolution images, mainly to avoid parallax errors.

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