>>4392307>More than almost any other type of headFluids go further, pan/tilts go further, most geared heads go further. The reason people get ball heads is because they're a cost compromise.
>Almost all ballheads have a slot to drop in to. And if the head isn't level and you can't get fully vertical in one direction then you can get past vertical on the opposite sideI mean, two out of the three posted in this thread don't
>Yeah they areAbsolutely not. If you're shooting a 300, a 70-200 on any full frame camera, a ball head will not be good enough.
>Then you need to buy some video legs with a levelling ball and spend more time levelling itAlmost every set of legs has a levelling ball, almost every fluid head will have a levelling ball, every mirrorless camera has in-camera levelling, and every ILC camera has a shoe where you can mount a levelling ball.
>And if you want to shoot portrait you need to remove the camera and rotate it (if that's even possible) and then you're limited in tilting up and down by the range of the levelling ballYes, genuine critique, but you can overcome this by just using an L bracket. Extending or reducing the legs also works but yeah, not convenient.
>Also many video heads like that are designed to have the plate mounted longitudinally, not convenient for a stills camera.I can see how it looks like that from the image, but those plates are really big, both in length and width and will cover more surface area than normal 4:3 or 1:1 aspect ration plates. At least the ones ive used. But yes, they are *designed* for cameras that are longer than they are wide, like video cameras.
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