How about a fluid head? > On 28 Dec 2020, at 04:12, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
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