Hi all,
I've been using my jury-rigged camera scanning setup for a while now, with decent results. The annoying thing about it, as usual, is the leveling process. I started off with a cheapish ballhead that's pretty sturdy but annoying to adjust, then moved to a cheapish pan-tilt head that was easier to adjust but wouldn't tighten enough not to slowly sag. Now I'm back with the ballhead, but I want something better!
A perfect tripod head would have only pan and tilt, and both would be finely adjustable by geared knobs. It needs to be stiff enough to hold a NEX-7 with an adapted Takumar 50/4 macro lens vertically. One current thought I have is to put something like this:
On top of something like this:
It seems like it'd be pretty kludgy, but the idea of being able to turn a ring to tilt the camera up and down is mighty enticing.
Anyone have any experience doing such a thing? Or perhaps any suggestions of a non-bank-breaking head that might do what I want?
I've been using my jury-rigged camera scanning setup for a while now, with decent results. The annoying thing about it, as usual, is the leveling process. I started off with a cheapish ballhead that's pretty sturdy but annoying to adjust, then moved to a cheapish pan-tilt head that was easier to adjust but wouldn't tighten enough not to slowly sag. Now I'm back with the ballhead, but I want something better!
A perfect tripod head would have only pan and tilt, and both would be finely adjustable by geared knobs. It needs to be stiff enough to hold a NEX-7 with an adapted Takumar 50/4 macro lens vertically. One current thought I have is to put something like this:
On top of something like this:
It seems like it'd be pretty kludgy, but the idea of being able to turn a ring to tilt the camera up and down is mighty enticing.
Anyone have any experience doing such a thing? Or perhaps any suggestions of a non-bank-breaking head that might do what I want?