J. C. O'Connell wrote: > I have used monopods for many years without heads. > since the thing only has one leg, its pretty easy > to adjust it as needed without a head. I dont even > think I would want a head on one...Verticals can > be done with a simple L-bracket on the camera on a monopod > too.
I use a ball head on mine mainly for (a) easier verticals and (b) when I'm on hills and need the "base orientation" to be significantly tilted w.r.t. the longitudinal axis of the 'pod. When I'm using a 'pod, I'm almost always panning a long lens at somewhere around f/13, too. That means I have to be careful about centers of rotation and curvature. And it rarely works out perfectly. Some of the "barrel of focus" effects can be quite intriguing. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
