On 8/27/2017 20:09, Larry Colen wrote:
4) A ballhead that is good enough for landscape work isn't necessarily good enough for photographing the sun. With the camera at that steep angle, once I tightened it down, things would still flex, which meant aiming took a lot of time.
About a third of the way through I figured out it was easier to leave the ball head alone once I got it locked down & adjust tripod legs to keep the image in the frame using Live View. If I live long enough to make it to the 2024 eclipse, I'm going to have some kind of astro-tracker that will mount two cameras and I'm going to be on site the night before so I can set it up using the north star. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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.
