> On Dec 28, 2020, at 12:41 PM, Toine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why not use a manfrotto 3 way pan tilt head. something like > https://www.amazon.com/Manfrotto-804RC2-Basic-Release-200PL-14/dp/B000K86664 > They are strong enough to do without balancing.
That’s not rated for as much weight as my Benro BH3, but the problem is that I’ve switched from manfrotto QR plates to Arca Swiss. When I went to upgrade the last time I found that there was an upper limit to the ratings of the manfrotto QR compatible gear. It turns out that Benro now makes an Arca-swiss compatible pan tilt head: https://benrousa.com/benro-hd3a-3-way-pan-head/ It’s rated for 26 pounds, which isn’t bad and is available for under $120, Here it is on the warrior chick site https://www.amazon.com/Benro-HD3A-3-way-Pan-Head/dp/B079QNPVPB > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 05:12, 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
