I don't know about the Slik Pro series, but I purchased a Slik Sprint: http://www.thkphoto.com/products/slik/slik-ss1.html
I wanted a compact, inexpensive tripod with a ball head and no quick release plates. I think this cost me about $70us. I like it quite a bit. I used it for lots of photos using my Canon 10/20d along with either the 17-40/4 or the 70-200/4. Though I will say that you really had to tighten the camera down really good when trying to use the longer lens in vertical format (without a tripod collar). I really like it, it's exactly what I was wanting. Especially now that I've switched to using classic Pentax stuff that's light as a feather ... it's perfect! On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:28 AM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/12 Bruce Walker <[email protected]>: >> Brian Walters wrote: >>> >>> Also, what are the pros and cons of ball heads versus pan heads? >>> >> >> For me it all boils down to speed of (re-)setup. With a ball head there's >> only a single control to untighten & retighten to allow me to re-point the >> lens arbitrarily. With a pan head I found myself struggling with up to >> three controls to reposition and I'd miss shots. >> >> But if you aren't in a hurry, I don't think it matters all that much. Pan >> heads give you the ability to make adjustments to one orientation aspect >> without disturbing the others. That might be more useful to you (eg: if you >> are stitching panoramas together). > > Ditto what Bruce said. > > Considering that I shoot lots of panoramas the imprecise nature of > ball heads makes levelling the camera a serious PITA. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
