Also, Nodal point has NOTHING to due with the curved field due to panning. The curved field is there where you pan on the node or not.
JCO -----Original Message----- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Large Format vs. Digital/Stitching why is this relevant? do you shoot wide open all the time? as for close vs far, it depends on how much care you take in finding the nodal point and how good your lens is. if you have nothing close, the nodal point pretty much doesn't matter. i'm a couple of centimeters off the nodal point on my panoramas and you can't tell the difference between that and distortion in the lens. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:00 AM Subject: RE: Large Format vs. Digital/Stitching > Software may be able to correct for typical geometry, but there is NO > WAY it can correct for curved or spherical "plane" of focus due to the > panning. > > Both the plane of focus curvature and geometery errors due to > non-nodal panning would be much worse for closeup objects vs. > infintiy.
