For a fine basic head, you can't go wrong with the Manfrotto heavy-duty ball
head. On eBay, Henry's of Canada offers them almost weekly for about $US40.
One touch, extremely well built. I bought a small bubble leveller for a
couple of bucks to place on the camera to keep the horizon level. However,
if you are into macro photography, this may not be what you want.
Cheers - martin
--- Jan van Wijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2001 12:39:15 +0200, J�rgen Blomgren wrote:
>
> >
> >The Manfrotto code is 460MG and the Bogen code is 3437.
> >
> >It seems to be a good head, but I am a bit doubtful how practical
> >it is, usually 3-way heads have large grips that you can use for
> >panning, levelling and tilting, but this head only has 3 small
> >rubber grip knobs. I guess you have to turn the knobs and then
> >pan/level/tilt the camera itself, sort of like a ball head,
> >but only one axis each time.
> >
> >Please, tell me all your opinions of this head, I am choosing
> >between this (460MG/3437), the basic 3-way head (141RC/3030)
> >and the Proball basic (308RC/3413QR) as the head for my first
> >tripod (probably the 055PRO).
>
> I use the basic 141 head, on a 055NAT tripod. I like it, but if the 460MG
> would
> have been available at the time, I think I would have taken that instead.
>
> It makes the tripod easier to take with you on longer tavels because there
> are
> no long handles sticking out everywhere :-) It is also very light.
>
> If I ever by a carbon tripod (still too expensive I think) it will
> probably
> get this head ....
>
> Regards, JvW
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Jan van Wijk; www.fsys.demon.nl
>
>
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