Shooting panos with a traditional DSLR or mirrorless camera

- Shooting panoramic or VR content … with a traditional DSLR or mirrorless camera … is a well-established tradition. … I've been shooting this type of photography … for well over 20 years … and the equipment, techniques, and technology … hasn't changed that much. … All we've seen is faster speeds and better quality. … To do this really requires a couple … of key pieces of equipment. … Francis, this is your rig. … Walk us through what's happening here. … Of course we have a tripod … but there's a very specialty head here. … Break it down. … - [Francis] So this is what we call … a nodal pan and tilt head. … What it is is it allows you to set your camera … so that way you can capture what we call the nodal point … in the lens which reduces parallax and any distortion. … - And what's happening there is the camera … is not centered over the tripod because if we did that … we would see overlap problems … particularly when there is some depth, right? … When there's foreground and background objects. …