As I often do and architectural shots, brought me my previous ball head sometimes to sheer madness. The not precisely align and then the slump, made to align, to the protracted affair.
The new tripod head the term superlatives is exaggerated in almost no relationship. Size, performance and price, all at the upper limit. The Manfrotto Geared Head 410 Junior is the smaller brother.
However, unlike the standard ball heads a gearhead has a different concept. During a ball head is designed for maximum mobility immediate, here is all about precision and there are only very slowly.
The chief attraction is that any position can be aligned exactly to the millimeter. Basically, the gearhead is a three-way head is only the adjustment immediately above knobs and not loosening the screws, align the axes and screw it down again. Here you move the position of the individual knobs. Since this, due to the very small translation, can last for long distances very long, there is an additional function that Schnellverstellringe. This just above the knobs attached rings, can by slight rotation, the axes and thus the current position, dearretieren so you can achieve the desired position more quickly than perhaps by thirty turns of the knobs.
Both controls are soft rubberized. For each axis, there is a graduated scale.
Since the tripod head is intended for very large cameras, Manfrotto also supplies a very large quick release plate (410PL). This has a quick-release closure with additional assurance.
Technical Specifications:
* 'Rotation 360 °
* 'Inclination -90 ° to + 90 °
* 'Height 16 cm
* 'Weight 1.6 kg
* 'Maximum load capacity 7.5 kg
Conclusion: Who needs a tripod head for extremely precise positioning, and large cameras (eg a Hasselblad medium format camera.) With heavy lenses has can not avoid a gearhead. However, one should consider that the 405 Pro Digital with 1.6 kilos is not one of the lightweights and a journey on foot will be carefully considered.
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