>> The people I know don't use a head - the screw the lens directly onto >> the end of the monopod. A head would become a weak point in the chain of >> monopod>head>lens>camera.
> That's what I've always done. For lighter lenses, I use the Manfrotto > FlexHead gizmo, but for big monsters like that such things are useless > with a monopod. On my monopod, I've used a Novoflex "Magic Ball" (the big one), which is very sturdy, and its design lets me tip the camera 90 degrees in almost any direction, without having to first line up a slot in the ballhead before tipping the camera over). However, I usually keep the ballhead locked "straight up", or, in other words, I treat the ballhead merely as an inline extension of the monopod axis, which, since I am tall and my monopod isn't, gives some added height to the 'pod. However, I've never used the above setup with any lens bigger than the A* 600/5.6, and even that was pushing it a bit. I can't even imagine using a 600/4 on a monopod - <g>. Fred
