Shift Panoramas - Examples

Here are a few examples to show you what kinds of panoramas can be realized with the Rear Tilt 'n' Shift Frame and the TS-E Panorama Head.

Using the REAR Tilt 'n' Shift Frame

The Rear Tilt 'n' Shift Frame can be used to create different types of shift panoramas. You can distinguish the shift direction and the orientation of the camera.

pocketPANO Rear Shift Adapter Canon TS-E 17mm 24mm TS-E Frame

Up & Down Shift in landscape mode

Here, the lens is set up (the setting of the two axes of rotation of the lens) so that the shift is in the vertical direction (up-down) and the camera is in landscape mode. Due to the large shift of up to 11mm, it is advisable to create shift panoramas of 3 images (center, 11mm up, 11mm down) to ensure enough overlap between the frames.

Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm
Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm

Up & Down Shift in portrait mode

Here the camera is shifted also up and down, but with the camera in portrait mode. This results in an extremely large vertical angle of view, which is suitable for fully imaging tall and narrow objects.

Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm
Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm

left & Right Shift in Portrait mode

In the following example, the shift mechanism was rotated 90 degrees so that it can be moved to the left and right. The camera is oriented in portrait mode.

Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm
Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm

Left & Right Shift in Landscape mode

The largest horizontal angle of view is achieved by lateral shifting while the camera is in landscape mode.

Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm
Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm

Using the TS-E Panorama Head

The TS-E Panorama Head offers the possibility of turning the lens around the nodal point (indicated by the green arrows) in addition to the shift mechanism (indicated by the red arrows). This allows a horizontal angle of view of up to 360°.

pocketPANO Rear Shift Adapter Canon TS-E 17mm 24mm TS-E Frame

Here, a panorama is shown in which the camera was in portrait orientation and two rows were photographed using the TS-E Panorama Head (one row shifted up, one row shifted down).

Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm
Shift Panorama with the pocketpano Rear Shift Panorama Adapter for CANON TS-E lenses 17mm 24mm

The rotation around the entrance pupil resulted in an enormous horizontal angle of view (about 200°). This can no longer be represented as a classic wide-angle shot in rectilinear projection. Therefore, a spherical projection was chosen for the example shown above.
Of course, panoramas are also possible in which only one row is recorded (rotation with TS-E Panorama Head, with or without additional shift).