Two thoughts, well, three or four… 1. L-bracket. Swiss-Acre mount used on a bullhead that uses a clamp rather than a screw-down system to secure the lens. Really Right Stuff? Not cheap. 2. Use lenses with tripod collars. 3. I’ve used cheap ball heads on monopods. Fageddaboutit. (sp?)
Kirk does make a nice monopod head, has fewer degrees of freedom than a full ball head, but serves the purpose nicely. When used with L-bracket… Not cheap. stan > On Oct 1, 2016, at 7:24 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > I asked this question in a different thread, - but it might not be seen > there, so, I would ask it in its own thread. > > I am considering buying a monopod and some type of device that allows quick > and easy flipping between horizontal and vertical positions. > Larry has suggested a ball head as those typically have a slit that allow to > tilt the camera by 90 degrees. > That is a possibility, but: 1. I would be overpaying for the functionality I > don't need. (Or maybe I am not looking at the right ball heads? Are there any > inexpensive ones?) > and > 2. A ball head has more degrees of freedom, which complicates the situation > when I need just to flip it from landscape to portrait orientation. > > I've been thinking about something that is similar to the brackets used for > mounting flashes, but just for the camera. Such a "bracket" would flip > between just two orientations (on a tripod or monopod). > Do such devices exist? Any pointers? > > Thank you! > > Igor > > > > > -- > 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.
