I love my Sirui ball head. It’s beautifully engineered and machined. I have the Arca mount on it. I used The Manfrotto mount for years, but once I became accustomed to the Arca I much preferred it.
Paul > On Aug 26, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Henk. I've never used the Arca Swiss system and appreciate your > comments. I wondered if there was much difference and it seems that some AS > plates have a lip on them that can be mounted against the back of the body, > preventing it from rotating on the plate. That feature (which apparently is > only on some plates) and the availability of an L bracket for the K1 led to > look at Arca Swiss compatible heads. I think I'll take a look at Manfrotto's > offerings and see how they stack up. > > Mark > >> On 8/25/2018 2:54 PM, Henk Terhell wrote: >> Vanguard is not the way to go in my opinion. >> I always had on my tripod a Manfrotto ball head with RC2 quick release plate >> on a 323 base plate. >> This easily carries my K-1 with a 1.5 kg telelens on a collar. Recently I >> bought for flower pics a sturdy mini tripod with ballhead, but this has an >> Arca-Swiss plate system. >> I found it much easier and safer to mount and unmount the camera on the >> Manfrotto RC2 system, even with one hand is possible. >> So I got rid of the Arca-Swiss system. Having two systems is bad option. >> >> Henk >> >> >> Op 2018-08-25 om 19:12 schreef Mark C: >>> I'm looking to replace my old Bogen Manfrotto Grip Action ball head (3265). >>> The ideal would be a ball head with a load capacity of at least 13 lb (the >>> max that the legs it will be mounted on), panning base, lever based lock >>> for the ball head (I find knobs to be too fiddly, especially wen wearing >>> gloves), arca swiss plate system and reasonably light weight. >>> >>> It seems that wanting a lever vs knob knocks out a lot of heads. Manfrotto >>> has a lot of lever models but they do not use arca swiss plates. Really >>> Right Stuff has a few but they are 2x-3x the cost of other brands. There is >>> an inexpensive "Vanguard" brand that meets all of my requirements, but its >>> a brand I never heard of and is very inexpensive, so I have doubts.... >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
