I love ballheads but fine adjustments are near impossible. I find composition adjust helps a lot sometimes. I've always preferred 3 axis even if they can be slower in use. They are generally heavier than a ballhead so they have probably fallen out of favor a bit. I love sirui but I think all they make is ballheads. they are working checking out though are are really inexpensive. 6 year warranty too.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ken Waller wrote: >> >> I have a Bogen 'mini gear' head that I adapted to arca swiss with the >> addition of an arca swiss clamp to the Bogen. > > > Aha, you got an arca-swiss clamp with 1/4-20 threads on it! It took me a > bit to figure out what you meant. I could attach one of those to one of my > tiltall tripods. > > It also seems that I might be able to make a fairly sturdy adapter to mount > my big Induro ball head to the tiltall, and I'd be able to use the tilt-pan > of the tiltall to easily level the base of the ballhead. > > > >> >> >> -----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 >> >> >> >> > > -- > 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. -- 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.
