Panoramic tripod head

As a panorama head refers to a component of camera tripods, to which the camera or the film camera is bolted via the tripod socket.

The panoramic head used to photograph panoramic images; he often has, therefore, a degree of division of labor, made ​​possible by the precise connections of frames for accurate alignment of the panoramic head have many models over water balances for each axis of rotation ( "Dragonfly "); when making movies, the panoramic head enables blur-free camera movement.

For the correction between the pivot point of the tripod and optical rotation of the mounted on the camera lens comes with professional frame panoramas a so-called Nodalpunktadapter used.

The size and stability of the panorama head has to match weight and volume of the camera; a large format camera therefore requires a more stable tripod head than a compact camera.

Other types of tripod heads are the ball joint head, the cinema and tilt head as the newest design of the geared head.