Panoramas made simple

Find the No-Parallax Point

Known No-Parallax Points for some camera & lens combinations are listed below. If you find your combo below, simply line up your MPR-CL II nodal slide at the NPP listed below and you're ready to go! This table assumes that...

1. You are using a Really Right Stuff camera body plate *(see note)
2. Your camera is mounted in landscape, not portrait **(see note)
3. You are using a Really Right Stuff MPR-CL II nodal slide ***(see note)

Have you already determined the NPP for other camera & lens combinations? Please share them with other Really Right Stuff customers by emailing us your list.

For negative value NPP measurements, simply rotate the MPR 180°

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* Note about your Camera Body Plate
If you are using an Arca-Swiss style mounting plate that was not made by Really Right Stuff, you may have to make an adjustment since the dovetails on your plate may not be in exactly the same place as the RRS plate.

** Note about Landscape Mode
Even though we recommend using an L-plate to shoot panoramas, we've listed the NPP with the camera mounted in landscape. Why? Well, the mounting dovetails on our L-plates are not always aligned with each other. To give proper clearance to the ports on the side of the camera, some L-plates have to be designed with the dovetails offset. When this has to be done, we try to position the offset at exactly 10mm to make the NPP positioning change quick and easy. If the dovetails on your L-plate are aligned, then you don't need to make any adjustments when turning the camera to portrait.

*** Note about your Nodal Slide
Our MPR-CL II nodal slide has a fixed clamp position. But you may be using one of our nodal slide packages with a sliding clamp. In that case, you should fix your sliding clamp at the position indicated below to simulate the MPR-CL II.
192 FAS Package: Fix your FAS clamp with the indicator at 16.7cm.
192 Precision Plus Package: Fix your mini-clamp so that the centering index mark on the bottom clamp is at 16.7cm.