Hi, Paul, I've never felt good panning with either a tri or monopod. Like you said, just can't get the right arc.
I have an archaic rifle-stock sort of thing. Looks terrible, but actually, it's really good for panning with a telephoto. With it, you have to turn your whole body with the camera, not just your head and arms. I think that makes for a much smoother pan. I can do cars, too! http://www.urbancaravan.com/images/perkins_car.jpg This was taken with the "rifle stock", and my original slr, a Praktica with a Soligor 300mm (all long since stolen). The shot is about 30 years old, taken at Mosport, of a Brabham F1 car. And, it's not cropped (really!) regards, frank Paul Stenquist wrote: > I've never been very good at panning with a tripod, although I would > imagine a video head makes it quite possible. With a conventional > tripod, you just can't get the right arc. Here's a handheld pan I shot a > couple of weeks ago with my 6x7 and the 165/4. Exposure was at 1/30th. I > think the stop was f22. The film was Ektachrome 100S. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1069827&size=lg > Paul > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
