Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-14 Thread Larry Colen
steve harley wrote: On 2016-07-13 19:52 , Larry Colen wrote: It also seems that I might be able to make a fairly sturdy adapter to mount my big Induro ball head to the tiltall, and I'd be able to use the tilt-pan of the tiltall to easily level the base of the ballhead. any standard ballhead

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-14 Thread steve harley
On 2016-07-13 16:25 , Larry Colen wrote: I've got an adapter for mounting a green laser to my hot shoe. I'd love to have something similar for holding my smartphone. Does anyone know of something existing? there seem to be dozens of options; this is just the first i clicked on:

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-14 Thread steve harley
On 2016-07-13 19:52 , Larry Colen wrote: It also seems that I might be able to make a fairly sturdy adapter to mount my big Induro ball head to the tiltall, and I'd be able to use the tilt-pan of the tiltall to easily level the base of the ballhead. any standard ballhead should screw right onto

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-14 Thread Jostein Øksne
Regarding Arca-Swiss, you can look for the tripod head and the QR-coupler separately. Maybe you can recycle a coupler from an old ballhead. To solve all your challenges in one go, you could buy a telescope mount with a built-in goto function. :-) Jostein Den 14. juli 2016 00.25.17 CEST, skr

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Ken Waller
I mainly use the 'mini gear' head for landscape and macro photography -Original Message- >From: Zos Xavius Subject: Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads > >I love ballheads but fine adjustments are near impossible. I find >composition adjust

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Larry Colen
Zos Xavius wrote: where is the edit button? :) I dunno, but I could use an edit button for my mouth too. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRI

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Zos Xavius
>>> tiltall tripods. >>> >>> It also seems that I might be able to make a fairly sturdy adapter to mount >>> my big Induro ball head to the tiltall, and I'd be able to use the tilt-pan >>> of the tiltall to easily level the base of the ballhead. >

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Zos Xavius
ltall, and I'd be able to use the tilt-pan >> of the tiltall to easily level the base of the ballhead. >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> -Original Message- >>>> >>>> From: Larry Colen >>>> Subject: Mounting a phone o

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Zos Xavius
fairly sturdy adapter to mount > my big Induro ball head to the tiltall, and I'd be able to use the tilt-pan > of the tiltall to easily level the base of the ballhead. > > > >> >> >> -----Original Message- >>> >>> From: Larry Colen >>

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Larry Colen
ect: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads A lot of times when playing with astrotracer, I can't exactly see what I'm aiming at with my bare eye, and particularly not through the viewfinder. I've gotten close by using the google skymap app on my phone, holding it u

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Ken Waller
I have a Bogen 'mini gear' head that I adapted to arca swiss with the addition of an arca swiss clamp to the Bogen. -Original Message- >From: Larry Colen >Subject: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads > >A lot of times when playing with astrot

Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

2016-07-13 Thread Larry Colen
A lot of times when playing with astrotracer, I can't exactly see what I'm aiming at with my bare eye, and particularly not through the viewfinder. I've gotten close by using the google skymap app on my phone, holding it up to the back of my camera and using that to aim close enough to see the