2009/3/12 Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com>: > Brian Walters wrote: >> >> Also, what are the pros and cons of ball heads versus pan heads? >> > > For me it all boils down to speed of (re-)setup. With a ball head there's > only a single control to untighten & retighten to allow me to re-point the > lens arbitrarily. With a pan head I found myself struggling with up to > three controls to reposition and I'd miss shots. > > But if you aren't in a hurry, I don't think it matters all that much. Pan > heads give you the ability to make adjustments to one orientation aspect > without disturbing the others. That might be more useful to you (eg: if you > are stitching panoramas together).
Ditto what Bruce said. Considering that I shoot lots of panoramas the imprecise nature of ball heads makes levelling the camera a serious PITA. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
