Regarding Arca-Swiss, you can look for the tripod head and the QR-coupler separately. Maybe you can recycle a coupler from an old ballhead.
To solve all your challenges in one go, you could buy a telescope mount with a built-in goto function. :-) Jostein Den 14. juli 2016 00.25.17 CEST, skrev Larry Colen <[email protected]>: >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? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
