Kaidan V1.4 User Manual
®
QuickPan
Panoramic Tripod Head
User’s Guide - V1.4 - Feb 2007
QuickPan Panoramic Tripod Head Overview
Thank you for purchasing a Kaidan
QuickPan Panoramic Tripod Head.
This manual is designed to help you
understand how to use your Quick-
Pan to create quality panoramas. This
document will be revised from time
to time and updated versions can be
down load ed from the QuickPan page
on the Kaidan web site.
QuickPan Overview
The QuickPan family is built around a
stur dy and precise Ro ta tor Base with
interchangable in dex ing ClickDiscs.
There are several camera brackets
that slide and lock onto the Rotator
A panoramic tri pod head makes it
that are stitched to form a complete
the cam era so that it ro tates around
the optical center or nodal point of
the lens and provides a repeatable
The QuickPan Family
sire two in de pen dent axes of ad just ment. It can be
with the Compact Camera Bracket. The two axes
than nec es sary. When a cam era equipped with a
the im age. This fea ture makes the Twin-Axis Adapter
VR Cubic pan ora mas. This bracket is ideal for
those soft ware ap pli ca tions that stitch mul ti ple
to sup port most dig i tal and fi lm cam er as in a
pact than previous models and the com pe ti tion.
will also ac cept older Kaidan camera brackets
Rotator Base (QuickPan )
Twin-Axis Adapter
Standard Camera Brack et
Spherical Camera Bracket
QuickPan Rotator Base
the silver thumbscrew on
the side of the black Rotator
to remove the head from the
tripod.
Once the thumbscrew is
the Detent Disc can be
the Rotator Housing.
the re cessed area in the top
to fully engage and collapse
the plunger, then tight en the
thumbscrew.
the plung er so that the metal
that the plunger is not set
Installing Detent Discs
1)
2)
3)
Sil ver
Thumbscrew
4)
5)
Adjusting the Force
of the Spring Plunger
QuickPan Rotator Base
with a tripod adapter bushing which ac-
tri pod mounts.
grab the lever and turn coun-
terclockwise. The clamp lever is
turned clockwise to tighten and
tioned by pulling outwards against
wise or counterclockwise. Next
throughout this manual showing
the mounting confi gurations of the
1/4 inch Tripod
3/8 inch Tripod