My personal feeling is that there are inexpensive ballheads that don't ever fully satisfy and then there are expensive ballheads that do. At some point (or some weight load) you will want more than these sub-100 ballheads. One of the last things on my equipment acquisition list (yeah right) is a Real Ballhead and I'm looking at the Acratech models.
I will probably go with a GV2, which gives you gimbal and panormama head capabilities, in addition to the normal ballheads. It is my understanding that you can use whatever quick release system you want with Acratechs so if you have an investment in Manfrotto/Bogen then you can just continue to use them. All of this is based off research - no actual experience. Maybe if there are PDMLers with Acratech ballheads they will chime in with actual experience. In any event, Acratech has a lot of videos explaining their different models. http://acratech.net/pages.php?pageid=7 But be advised that these are several times the price of your existing equip. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
