Gitzo wrote:
Greenguy;
You should change your name to "tall guy"! First; check my reply to Carlo about tripods; (I just posted it 6 seconds ago! ) You like those Really Right Stuff tripods and ball heads, eh? (Most people do, and they're great! ) As I mentioned to Carlo.....I know a lady who shoots mainly with a great big Nikon D4, and quite a bit of the time she has her "even great bigger" f/2.8-400mm hanging on it; for years, (like a lot of people ), she used Manfroto Q/R plates; also like a lot of other people, she discovered why everyone had gone to Arca-style plates and clamps; then she needed a new tripod and a gimbal head for that HUGE lens she had; she went with Induro for the tripod AND the gimbal head; loves them both! If you want a REALLY great ball head, check out an Arca-Swiss B-1; 12 years ago, that was all RRS sold; the guy who bought RRS started making his own heads. (They're great.....no doubt......but the B-1 is just as "great"; the thing is very light, has a HUGE ball, (which is "aspheric" rather than "spherical" ), which prevents camera "flop"; I was still using my Nikon F-5 and big, heavy 80-200, f/2.8 zoom when I got my B-1 (pre-owned ) from a fellow in the U.K. It holds that camera & lens like most heads hold a small camera with a 50mm lens; believe me......you can pick up a high quality tripod AND ball head a LOT less than 15 Cs!
Greenguy; br You should change your name to "... (
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Do you have the link or title of the thread you posted to? I can't find it.