I suspect that in theory the tripod mount foot on most telephotos is pretty close to where they think the center of gravity will be when it’s mounted on a camera.
When I’m using a ball head I find that this is very rarely the case. I was thinking that if I had a really long arca swiss plate on my lens, I could attach it much closer to the balance point. However I suspect that If I’m shooting at anything not very close to level, it would no longer be that well balanced. Is there a good solution other than dropping $BIGNUM on a gimbal mount? In a related question, When I’m doing astrophotography, I’ve found that a pan/tilt head makes it a lot easier because I can adjust one axis at a time and not risk entirely losing my aim. I have accomplished this by putting an Arca-swiss ballhead on one of my tiltall tripods. Are there any decent tilt-pan arca-swiss tripod heads? Preferably ones that aren’t outrageously expensive? -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- 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.
