Once your camera is on the pan head, move to the front of the camera and look straight at the lens. The center of the lens should be directly over the pivot axis of the pan head. Adjust the side-to-side settings so the lens is centered over the pivot.

Step2: Frontward/backward ADJUSTMENT

Set up your camera inside a building just inside of a doorway. Try to put it in front of a the doorway so that you can see the edge of the door frame as well as another vertical line at least 10 feet away (another door in a hallway is best) Position your camera and tripod about two feet away, or as close as possible with the edge still in focus when you look through the viewfinder.

Looking through the viewfinder, align a close object (brick wall) with a faraway object (telephone pole). As you rotate the camera from side-to-side there should be no relative movement between the two objects.

After you have found the settings, mark the panoramic head with permanent ink. These numbers represent the nodal point for this given camera and lens combination. If you use a different camera or lens, or zoom the lens, you will have to find the nodal point again by doing these 3 steps.

We have written down the nodal point setting for each camera on each of the different panoramic heads! This information is kept with the cameras!