Comments on: Manfrotto Is Making One Crazy Looking Tripod Head

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:45:00 +0000

sure you didn’t get money from them but this video is made by manfrotto itself so it can’t be objective at all. this video is in fact an advertisement!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:45:00 +0000

sure you didn’t get money from them but this video is made by manfrotto itself so it can’t be objective at all. this video is in fact an advertisement!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:36:00 +0000

Like I said I’ve never used it for video, but I think the problem might be that the bar i too short, but that should be easy to fix.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:12:00 +0000

That´s the one i have and it´s not fluid/smooth for video, or maybe it´s just me…

By: James Darden

James Darden — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:43:00 +0000

I’ve been using my old Slik pan/tilt head for stills for a very long time. In fact, I don’t think ball heads were that popular back when I bought it decades ago. The way I see it, when you shoot with a tripod, you’re not going to be messing with the camera once you have it where you want it so I’m not convinced that a ball head is the way to go anyway. Because you have so many degrees of freedom, it takes too long to get the thing level on every axis. Whereas with a pan/tilt, you can lock one and still move the other two. With a ball head, if I you want to change the azimuth, it’s next to impossible to do it without throwing off the horizon level.

I’ll admit that with a pan/tilt head, going from landscape to portrait is a pain because you end up turning the camera on the mount so you can use the arm to change perspective. But I can live with that.

By: Payam Jirsa

Payam Jirsa — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:23:00 +0000

This is actually a dope tripod head. I am gonna need to pick one of these up, so much easier than what we are doing now lugging our 20lb video tripod around.

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:23:00 +0000

They didn’t pay us for this post…I just thought it was an interesting product that might help those photographers who don’t like carrying two heads (like me). I’m not sure I’d necessarily jump on board with this but since we promote photos and video, I thought our readers might like it.

By: Lee Morris

Lee Morris — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:05:00 +0000

Hah, I wish they had paid us for this

By: EarMaster

EarMaster — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:53:00 +0000

Why are we having such advertisement here? The video has no new information at all, apart from Manfrotto having a new product. I hope they paid well, because this would be the only reason to post this here (but next time tell us, that they paid for it)…

By: Nour El Refai

Nour El Refai — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:43:00 +0000

Infact this is a good head, marketed to still photographers who want to shoot video from time to time (as David said) and actually this concept introduced by Manfrotto before but for small P&S cameras and handycams on the Modo small tripod