Without spending the big bucks, you might try a monopod - will help in
panning at least.
Adding a cheap tilt head
http://www.manfrotto.com/Jahia/site/manfrotto/pid/2375 and keeping it
slightly less than snug will let you do some up & down motion.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graydon" <o...@uniserve.com>
Subject: Re: Big Dumb Tripod
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:34:16PM -0400, Doug Franklin scripsit:
Joseph McAllister wrote:
Gonna cost me $300 to go the cheap way for a horizontal hang, or $700
for the Wimberly. Gonna go the cheap way, fer sure.
The way I figure it, the gimbal head is going to cost more than (about
twice as much as) I paid for the lens, so I work on my hand holding.
:-)
I've been doing that.
What I've been finding is that no amount of careful propping on terrain,
breath control, etc. really helps with being perfectly still for
*range*; left to right and up and down motions are much easier to
control than front-to-back motion, and of course it's the slight
front-to-back motion that throws off the focus.
I get maybe one in five right on hand-holding 800 or 500 mm mirror
lenses; I can't imagine a heavier lens makes this easier. Autofocus
probably would.
-- Graydon
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