The QuickPan III Family
Twin-Axis
Camera Bracket
The Twin-Axis Camera Bracket is designed to
support most digital and film cameras that are
equipped with fisheye lenses, or for those users
who desire or appreciate two independent slid-
ing and locking axes of adjustment. The two in-
dependent axes of adjustment positions the
lens in such a manner so as not to capture any
more of the Rotator Base than necessary. When
a camera equipped with a circular fisheye lens
is installed on the bracket, only a small segment
of the Rotator Base will appear in the image.
This feature makes the Twin-Axis Camera
Bracket ideal for those using iPIX software,
Panoweaver (www.easypano.net) and other
software applications that use fisheye images.
Spherical
Camera Bracket
The Spherical Camera Bracket is designed to
support most digital and film cameras and to
permit the angular up/down elevation for the
capture of multirow spherical and QuickTime
VR Cubic panoramas. This bracket is ideal for
those software applications that stitch mul-
tiple rows of images, including up/down "cap"
shots such as REALVIZ Stitcher. The Spherical
Camera Bracket can also be positioned at a level
zero degrees, thus fulfilling the same functions
as the Standard Camera Bracket. An optional
Arca-Swiss Quick Release camera plate is also
available.
Standard
Camera Bracket
The Standard Camera Bracket is designed to
support most digital and film cameras in a por-
trait orientation. Used primarily to shoot
single-row or cylindrical panoramas, the Stan-
dard Camera Bracket can be adjusted along the
horizontal arm of the Rotator Base in order to
locate the camera in the side-to-side orienta-
tion. There are three slots in the bracket,
that
when used with various positioning aids, pro-
vide for the fore-aft adjustment of the camera's
optical center, or nodal point, over the rota-
tional center of the tripod head.
Rotator Base
This heavy-duty design is lighter and more
compact than previous models and the compe-
tition. The new base employs interchangeable
Indexing Rings that support any number of
click-stop positions from 2 through 22. The
rings can be easily swapped at any time and
contribute to the light weight. The indexing
mechanism requires no lubrication or adjust-
ments and has no loose parts. The base contains
an integral circular bubble level and
accomodates either 1/4” or 3/8” tripod threads.
The new QuickPan III Rotator Base will also ac-
cept older Kaidan camera brackets (i.e. KiWi+,
QuickPan).
Introducing the QuickPan III Components
