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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: sbay on July 31, 2019, 01:11:16 pm

Title: Tilt head with indexed stops
Post by: sbay on July 31, 2019, 01:11:16 pm

Does anybody know of a tilt head that has indexed stops? I would like the tilt setting to be repeatable for when I'm doing multi-image stacking, panos, etc.

Title: Re: Tilt head with indexed stops
Post by: Rand47 on August 01, 2019, 12:39:13 am

Quote from: sbay on July 31, 2019, 01:11:16 pm

Does anybody know of a tilt head that has indexed stops? I would like the tilt setting to be repeatable for when I'm doing multi-image stacking, panos, etc.

I don’t know of any with indexed “stops” but the Arca Swiss D4 geared head has markings that might fit the bill. 

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-24Fp8F2/0/5a50a9c7/M/i-24Fp8F2-M.jpg)

Rand

Title: Re: Tilt head with indexed stops
Post by: sbay on August 01, 2019, 04:00:09 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about using a regular pan head with markings, but I don't want to spend the time to re-align and it might be off a bit from my previous shots. I wonder if there are any with some kind of way to quickly return to an existing setting? Typically I would do something like a 2x1 vertical pano where I shoot the foreground and then tilt my camera up to get more sky and then return to the foreground.

I also have a full pano head (RRS PG-01) and I could put a nodal ninja indexed rotator on the vertical arm, but it would be a bit cumbersome and heavy to always carry around.