Over the last 4 or 5 years we have been using a standard rig: Nikon 990 with the fisheye lens, Kaidan Kiwi990 pan head and the Kaidan quick leveller. Only issue we had was due to the fisheye lens weight as it caused the camera to tilt down during rotation.
We found that our new 20d and Sigma 8 works on our old Kaidan Kiwi990 pan head and quick leveller. Seems the 20d and Nikon 990 nearly have the same dimensions. We still have the tilt down issue. I can live with that as it saves us several hundreds of dollar$ in investing in a new pan head.
We take 6 photo's and get nearly a full angle of view with out having to take a zenith/sky shot. What I found interesting is that when looking at the finished image we get a complete circle image of the tripod head which is a good thing.
And yes, we too are waiting for PW4 to be released.
In the meantime we use an alternate software package. We shot 6 horizontally, 2336 x 3504 RAW converted to BMP. Also did a little glass ball cap. To see this finished panorama taken with the Kaidan Kiwi990 head/leveler and Canon 20d, click below either 'dialup view' or 'broadband full screen view' when looking at our home page
http://360texas.com/
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