Precision360 Atome User Manual

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Atome User Guide

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1st June 2019

Rev 2.0

Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of a Precision360 Atome! The Atome is designed to compliment
rather than replace our other panoramic tripod heads. The small & lightweight design of the Atome
is primarily designed for travel panography; we realise that carrying a Precision360 Absolute up a
mountain is an unenviable task! Please do not infer that the Atome is inferior to our other models; in
fact the Atome alone may prove enough hardware for hobbyist panoramic use.

As with our other products, this panohead is designed for specic lens and camera combinations. The lens
specic requirement seems clear, but use of a fullframe or DX sensor may effect our recommendation as
to the specic Atome that we should supply (e.g. some, such as the Sigma8 Atome, can have a bracket

which enables small upward tilt to ensure good zenith coverage, and detent options can change). The

consequence from this is that any Atome we supply to you will only need minor assembly before you

can get shooting. Once setup there are no settings which can go wrong, so no spoiled shots. The nodal

point is xed and automatically setup. This is one of the main benets of our design and manufacturing
technique.

Due to the intimate contact between the lens ring and the lens we cannot guarantee that use of the

Atome will not leave small mounting marks on your lens. The ability to make such a small panohead
is only possible with a lens mount; we think this is a trade-off worth making. In our testing we have
not seen any marking on the lens, but if a scratch on your lens housing is unacceptable we would
recommend use of a different panohead from our range.

Words written in this manual in italics refer to a physical part of the head, photos of which can be found
in the parts list at the back of this manual.

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