I think the downside is you cannot point your camera at 12 or 6 o'clock with this ball head. But it will go to 85° according to the specs. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Young" <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:45 AM Subject: [LRflex] Ball Head help > All: > > I'm trying to decide on a new tripod head. Requirements are: > > 1) physically small & lightweight, for travel. > 2) secure enough to hold R8+DMR +400 Telyt w/2x steady. > 3) must be able to point at the noon sun (for solar eclipse photography) > 4) relatively low cost. > > At Photokina I saw the Novoflex Magic Ball 50 (Holds 7 kilos, so > should be OK for weight) that was not too large, and looked really > slick! http://www.adorama.com/NVMBH50.html?sid=1170347693130532 > > Has anyone here used one of these. > > Other ideas? > > Thanks. > --- > > David Young, > Logan Lake, CANADA > > Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ > Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt > > > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/