Larry, a good gimbal mount is only about 15% of the price of a K1!
Alan C
On 28-Dec-20 06:11 AM, Larry Colen 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?
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