Ask any professional photographer for their top tip for taking good photos and they will no doubt say, "Read and understand your camera's user manual".
That's fine if you're only taking still photos. However, panoramic Photography entails a whole bundle of equipment that requires a great deal of care to set-up if you want to achieve a perfect stitch. Camera Menu Settings for Coolpix 4500 with FC-E8 Fisheye lens attached
Ask any professional photographer for their top tip for taking good photos and they will no doubt say, "Read and understand your camera's user manual".
That's fine if you're only taking still photos. However, panoramic photography entails a whole bundle of equipment that requires a great deal of care to set-up if you want to achieve a perfect stitch. Panoramic Photography, Coolpix 4500, Panoramic 360, Settings MrotatorQ, Mrotator, FC-E8 Fisheye Lens
Camera Menu Settings for Coolpix 4500 with FC-E8 Fisheye lens attached:
The following camera settings must be changed or confirmed before you can take a three shot Fisheye photography.
Settings that need to be changed:
Select A mode (NOT Auto)
* White Balance A-WB Auto Set for each scene
* Metering Matrix Centre Weighted
* Continuous Single
* Best Shot Selector Off
* Image Adjustment Auto Normal
* Saturation Control Normal
* Image Quality Normal Fine
* Image Size 2272x1704
* User Setting 1
* Image Sharpening On Off
* Lens Normal Fisheye1
Exposure Options (AE Lock) On (Reset)
1. Attach you camera to the MrotatorQ pano head using the centre slot and slide it ALL the way to the right and tighten.
2. Fix the Pano head and camera to your tripod.
3. Align your tripod so the brightest light is captured ONLY in one quarter of the Fisheye lens.
4. Take care to LEVEL your camera and tripod.
5. Remove the lens cover
6. Switch on the camera, select menu, scroll down the options and select Exposure Options (AE Lock) On (Reset)
7. Stand back behind the camera and half click the shutter button, pause, then fully click. Carefully turn the panohead 120 degrees in a CLOCKWISE direction. Take another photo. Turn the head 120 clockwise and take your third and final picture.
That's it... you should now have 3 round images to process using the excellent EasyPano software.
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