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Text and photo material: Jan Röpenack

Beside  your 

Panorama  VR-System  Mini

,  consisting  of  panorama  base 

Panorama=Q 48 

(1), clamping plate with quick release 

QPL Slim 200

 (2), angle 

bracket 

QPL Slim Vertikal

 (3) and 

Spirit Level

 (4) for the flash shoe, you will require: 

• 

A digital camera (ideally a compact DSLR or mirrorless system camera with a 

   standard or wide angle lens)

• 

A stable tripod (recommended: Novoflex 

Triopod

)

• 

A ball head or leveling base (recommended: Novoflex 

MagicBalance

)

• 

A PC (ideally a current computer with a lot of ram and a large hard disk) and a 

   panorama software (recommended: 

PanoramaStudio

 or 

PTGui)

1

3

4

2

Which equipment 
is necessary?

To achieve exceptionally good re-
sults, you should make some ad-
justments  before  taking  your  pic-
tures. These instructions will help 
familiarize  you  with  the  most  im-
portant working steps.

Panorama VR-System Mini

Congratulations!  By  purchasing  your 

Panorama  VR-System  Mini

  you  have 

acquired a tool, which enables you - to-
gether with a compact DSLR- or mirror-
less system camera, a tripod, a ballhead 
and  a  personal  computer  -  to  generate 
high quality panoramas simply.

Summary of Contents for Panorama VR-System Mini

Page 1: ...commended Novoflex Triopod A ball head or leveling base recommended Novoflex MagicBalance A PC ideally a current computer with a lot of ram and a large hard disk and a panorama software recommended Pa...

Page 2: ...e computer using a stitching software e g PanoramaStudio or PTGui Example above Taken with a fullframe camera and a 17mm wide angle lens pan ning angle 45 increment selector lever at 16 on the panoram...

Page 3: ...the background mountain This is the requirement for accurate stitching of the pano rama Page 3 Step 6 Camera settings For best quality standardize the exposure in each single frame meaning choose manu...

Page 4: ...ethod B The clamping plate 2 has a fixed position on the panning base 1 and moving the quick release on the clamping plate 2 2 Backside of the clamping plate QPL Slim 200 Page 4 On the other hand if y...

Page 5: ...ull access to the locking screw from behind Moreo ver scale values on the clamping plate can be read off from above very easily Only when using a strong wide angle lens seeing the clamping plate withi...

Page 6: ...n can be selected directly at the In crement Selector Lever Between two shot just turn the system to the next click stop Using the blue Angle Locking Screw you can fix the current angle position if ne...

Page 7: ...re needs an overlap of 20 50 Between each expo sure use a fixed panning angle To estimate the increments look through the viewfinder while panning your system through the scene It s much easier to ori...

Page 8: ...another distance on the plate When panning again you will notice that the movement of the lines to each other will either be stronger or weaker In the last case you shifted the plate in the right dir...

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