[rollei_list] Re: Pan or Ball

  • From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:44:53 +0000 (GMT)

Make mine another vote for pan! I always carry a mini ball and table top tripod 
for "emengencies" but pan, particularly geared heads are much better IMO.
Frank


--- On Wed, 4/3/09, Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Pan or Ball
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 4 March, 2009, 11:38 PM
> PAN! Move each axis separately. None of this 'move one
> axis and screw-up the other axis'. I have an Arca Swiss
> Ball, which I occasionally use, and two Gitzo pan-tilt
> heads. The ball gets used when I run out of heads for what I
> am doing. It always reinforces why I dislike ball heads.
> 
> MHO,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Robert Lilley wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am thinking of replacing my old Gitzo Rational No.3
> pan head with a large new Really Right Stuff type ball head.
>  My tripod is a Ries J600 Backpacker model and the cameras
> I'll use would be the Rollieflex and 4x5A Toyo Field. 
> Anyone have any comments  as to whether to pan or ball?
> > 
> > Rob
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