Hello, I just purchased a Manfrotto 303plus Pano head (mounted on an acratech leveling base) and now I need to learn a way to find the Nodal Point of a lens. I have done some research and came across two different methods.
1) For an 85 1.8 lens the nodal point is 85mm from the "film plane" indication mark. This goes for a 50mm 1.8... it is 50mm from that mark. Has anyone ever heard of this or used it?
2) The second and most common way was simply trial and error. By moving the camera slightly, check the relationship between foreground objects and background objects. When these objects relative position does not change, you are at or near the nodal point. Has anyone ever used this method?
If anyone can please help me out, I seem to be lost at this point. I have been fairly succesful creating panos without the head, but I wound up cropping the center out and spending ALOT of time stitching them together. I want to speed the process up as much as possible and create more consistant results. Thanks for any help.