Gene51 wrote:
I use a ball head with leveling base 100%
of the time. Why do you say it is useless?
He's just generously sharing some received
wisdom. As you've discovered for yourself,
received wisdom pales before experience.
But often enuf , received wisdom has some
useful advice in it, if you avoid treating it as
gospel fact.
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FWIW, a leveling base is just a convenience,
easier than leveling the tripod itself, which
tho a bit more tedious is really no big deal.
I have a pano "head", a very simple rotation
device that works perfectly on any ball head
by using it on top of the ball head instead of
under it. The ball head levels the pano head
so I don't hafta level the whole tripod. I can
be as lazy as the next guy, even more so !
But I don't need a "leveling base" to avoid
leveling the entire tripod ;-)