Phillip Stiger
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Do you prefer a pan tilt head or a ball head?
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Ball or Pan tilt head
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Bart_van_der_Wolf
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It depends on the type of photography.
A pan/tilt head allows to modify the field of view in only one dimension at a time, which may speed-up things if it suits your type of imaging (e.g. if you want to avoid introducing roll after meticulous leveling).
A (good quality) ball head allows fast adjustment of two dimensions + roll, at the same time. The ball head needs good friction control to avoid accidents or jerky movement.
I'd say that for very accurate positioning, a pan/tilt head (even a modestly priced one) has the edge. For most other uses, a heavy ball head seems the best, but expect to pay a significant price for a really good one.
Bart
Cem_Usakligil
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Having worked with solely pan/tilt heads in the past, I have recently bought a very good ball head, the Manfrotto 468MGRC2. It offers hydrostatic and mechanical friction control and is very practical in use. I would not want to miss it now, very happy with it. For the rest, Bart has said all there is to say really.
Just my humble EUR 0.02 ;-)
Cheers,
Just my humble EUR 0.02 ;-)
Cheers,