For about 40 years I am engaged in photography, but as a part I had not yet. Clear I've photographed wide panoramas, but only by 'manual control'. In the analogue era to the then widespread method to remember roughly what just comes to the left on the picture, trigger, turn left, to the right just Depends what had just far left and so on. With a little practice, I got so pictures that I could stick together to form a panorama.
Modern digital cameras usually have built a Panorama mode in which you smoothly as possible after release turns the camera to the right or left and the camera handles everything automatically into a panorama.
Both works somehow, but is clearly in need of improvement.
The idea behind the 'Mantona panoramic tripod head' is to attach a camera to the tripod head, which is then uniformly rotated by the tripod head from right to left. If you can make in an even interval frames the camera, you can have them made into a film by means of software, the one contrary gives a panoramic view of a place, the mountains or another suitable subject. For the tripod head has up and down each a 1/4 inch thread. This corresponds to the standard for tripods, so I can fix the tripod head on a tripod, which I strongly recommend. This also comes in wide-angle shots not the underground in the photograph (z. B. the table on which the piece is). In the upper thread inserted a set screw, which can be used either directly screw on a camera or a holder.
And thus begins the trouble:
First, the set screw is not fixed. When screwing a problem yet, when unscrewing is thus not defined where the set screw remains: the tripod head, in the camera / the holder or if it turns out of both and falls to the ground. Place: Six.
Second, the metal casing of the tripod head is up in anodized metal. Looks wertig but causes unavoidable scratches occur on either the camera or the tripod head. When unscrewing a plastic holder to attach such. As a smartphone that does not matter much. But I am glad that my camera has not gotten the scratches, but the tripod head. Already put back, still six.
The tripod head consists of two housing halves. Between the two is an approximately 1 mm wide slot is. Screwed to a slightly heavier camera whose emphasis is not on the tripod thread, it may happen that the upper half of the tripod head tilts slightly towards the center of gravity of the camera. Not dramatically, but ugly.
The actual rotational movement of the tripod head is dissolved out as an egg timer: turning against lower, release the rotary movement starts upper case. In this context, the following applies: If the tripod head is rotated by 360 degrees, it takes about an hour, until the rotation is stopped. If the rotation only 180 degrees, it takes only 30 minutes and so on. The description is: '' stepless adjustment with four possible intervals, 360 degrees in about 60 minutes, 270 degrees in about 45 minutes ''
This could be interpreted that one z. B. can adjust 360 degrees or 60 minute. But that is not so. As with a mechanical egg timer bars are mounted on the housing, which should correspond to an expiration time. And these are minutes, in this case 15, 30, 45 and 60. That you manage to accurately adjust to z. B. for 15 minutes is almost impossible. If you want to shoot for 15 minutes, you can really only intentionally set a longer time and then use only the recordings of 15 minutes. The exact time plays a role for you, this tripod head is not suitable for you.
With the rotation of the tripod head makes it clear that he exactly according to the principle of a mechanical egg timer works: You hear it ticking loudly. Although in the description only from photos is the speech I made with my camera once a movie. Here, the tripod head on a table between me and my TV. Although you can hear the TV sound, but loud is the ticking '
At the end of the rotation of the tripod head makes exactly what an egg timer also makes: it rings. Unnoticed, unobtrusive application is therefore excluded.
You can already imagine it: I'm not enthusiastic about the part.
Negatives:
- Not fixed threaded pin
- Surface easily scratched / or scratched Camera
- Time and not exactly set angle; my tip: make a more than you need. You can also set a little more than 360 degrees, so you certainly get photos of a complete rotation.
- Direction of rotation fixed: always clockwise
- Suitable only for light cameras
- Ticking loudly / rings at the end
Positives:
- Works without batteries, so even if you have not used for a long time
That's why I can forgive only two stars. Two, because the 'Mantona panoramic tripod head' about doing what is stated in the description.
If you wish to set the part, here's a tip:
Check first whether you can do with the camera of your choice automatically Interval Shooting over a longer period. And be aware that you need a software to a film for joining the interval shooting.
