I do not have hands of somebody working with metals.įor those who worked metals by turning and milling by example, you know that it is the best way to get dirty hands and sometime it is very difficult to clean. If I show my hands, you could not guess what I did for the last month. Still, it is a monster!įor the last month, I turned and milled adaptors for photography. PS: Your model is spectacular and mind boggling! I am building the same one, but in 1:48 scale. Some time ago I built one from hardwood scraps + purchased a few extra inexpensive parts, following a short tutorial online, and determined my nodal points for my Nikon D200. Such panorama arms (heads) are quite expensive, unless you want to build one by yourself (which drastically lowers the cost, total ~ 20-30 US dollars). It all involves determining the so called nodal point of your lens, which is sort of a complex concept, so I won't even try here to explain it. To remedy this, you have to use a special panorama arm (head) that eliminates this error, like this one: or similar

You can stitch large (upwards of 10 or more pics) distant panoramas (landscapes) quite easily, just snap individual pics (vertically) overlapping them about 1/3 and stitch them together on one of the panorama programs, like Hugin (free), Photoshop or PTGUi (purchase license), but taking panoramas of close up objects (macrophotography) involves the so called, parallax error, which makes stitching difficult or even impossible.

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