Camera Compatibility

To know if your camera will work properly with the Panosaurus you will need to know THREE things.

1. The placement of the tripod hole on your camera.

The picture above shows a standard Digital SLR.
The Panosaurus will work with any camera that has a tripod hole that is "INLINE" with the lens centerline.

The picture above shows the location of a tripod hole on a small digital camera. The Panosaurus will work with any camera that has a tripod hole offset to the LEFT - as long as the tripod hole is not so close to the edge of the camera that it may tip the camera up when mounted to the rubber mount of the Panosaurus. The tripod hole of camera in the picture above is almost too close to the edge of the camera but it will work.

The Panosaurus WILL NOT WORK (without modification) with any camera with a tripod hole located to the right of the lens.
Note: A possible solution to this problem is to drill a custom hole in the camera mounting block of the Panosaurus. If you are interested in having this done or doing it yourself - please contact me for more information.

2. The weight of your camera and lens.

The Panosaurus is NOT recommended for any camera and lens combination weighing more than 3.2 lbs or 1.4kg. For more information about weight issues please see the FAQ section in the support pages.

3. An estimate of the distance from the center of your tripod hole to the optical center of your lens.

When using a Digital SLR camera with a long lens the absolute maximum length from the tripod mounting hole of the camera to the optical center of the lens must be no more than 180mm or about 7 inches.

If the tripod hole of your camera is offset from the centerline of the lens then the maximum distance from the tripod mounting hole to the optical center of the lens must be no more than 160mm or about 6.5 inches.

A rough estimate of the optical center of a fixed focal length lens is usually somewhere close to the physical center of the lens. If you look into the front of a lens and locate the pinhole opening, this is where the optical center will lie for most fixed focal length lenses.

Important!!!

Cameras or lenses that have been found to NOT work for various unusual reasons:

Nikon 950 camera (Tripod hole too close to front of camera. This causes the camera to tip up when mounted to a rubber or cork pad)

Canon S400, S230 camera (Tripod hole on wrong side of lens & too close to the edge of the camera)