I have a Bogen 'mini gear' head that I adapted to arca swiss with the addition of an arca swiss clamp to the Bogen.
-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> >Subject: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads > >A lot of times when playing with astrotracer, I can't exactly see what >I'm aiming at with my bare eye, and particularly not through the >viewfinder. I've gotten close by using the google skymap app on my >phone, holding it up to the back of my camera and using that to aim >close enough to see the object in images and dial things in tighter. > >I've got an adapter for mounting a green laser to my hot shoe. I'd love >to have something similar for holding my smartphone. Does anyone know >of something existing? >Mind you what I'd really like is to be able to install google sky map on >my camera and use its gps, accelerometer and display for aiming. > >In a similar vein. fine adjustments using a ball head are a titch >touchy. My old manfrotto three axis heads allowed me to adjust one axis >at a time, but I can't find any of those in Arca Swiss. Are there any >decent three axis arca swiss heads that will hold a large lens and not >cost several hundred dollars? > >-- >Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
