Just as was discussed with the Gitzo vs. Induro thread.... you get what you pay for. I learned long ago that the best strategy is to buy once, and buy right. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the metal stem sheers off that ballhead. I've seen it happen to similar products. That $22 ballhead could result in a multi-hundred dollar repair bill for the camera/lens you choose to put on it.
regretfully, you really have no idea. like any instrument one must know how to use it . a Stradivarius in the hands of a hack is just a box with strings attached. i've heard many owners of LP's butcher the instrument. why don't you go and see what your capable of doing with one? remember most of the sound comes from the one playing the instrument if they understand how to play it.
Seeing as how I've taught jazz guitar at the university level, given lectures on jazz/electric guitar, opened for Chick Corea and am the author of one of the best selling jazz guitar books - Sheets of Sound for Guitar - I'd have to disagree.
jzucker wrote:
Anyway, is there any way to delete a thread here? This thread has become more than useless. Reminds me of the idiotic postings on thegearpage.net
How about you stop posting and let this thread slide fitfully to the depths of the FMforums murk...
are we talking about guitars, jazz or ball heads? .
Edit, sorry, I didn't mean to bring this sore subject to the top, I'll try to help dig a nice hole for it...to the depths of the forum archives it goes. ;0)
jzucker wrote:
Seeing as how I've taught jazz guitar at the university level, given lectures on jazz/electric guitar, opened for Chick Corea and am the author of one of the best selling jazz guitar books - Sheets of Sound for Guitar - I'd have to disagree.
Nice use of Papyrus on the cover. It really lends an air of sophistication & credibility.
I have one of these ball heads or something that looks a lot like it. I think all these ball heads that come out of China come out of the same factory. I took off the existing clamp and with a metal file, did a little surgery on it so it could accept an RRS lever clamp. The result turned out great and used it like that for a couple of years till I ended up using the clamp for something else. Still have the ball...
how did you take the clamp off? I can't tell if its welded, cast or epoxied on. Doesn't seem to unscrew. I still think this would make a good head for a tripod that fits in my carryon bag.
I can't see why you shouldn't buy this ballhead...You obviously didn't read the description, it never claims to be arca swiss compatible, it says to put it on the tripod & then screw it onto your camera...you know what they say about people who assume...
MikeW wrote:
I can't see why you shouldn't buy this ballhead...You obviously didn't read the description, it never claims to be arca swiss compatible, it says to put it on the tripod & then screw it onto your camera...you know what they say about people who assume...
If you have to screw it straight into your camera, don't buy it. Every decent brand use some kind of quick release system.
In fact this ballhead uses an arca style release very similar to my kirk plate (which also has to screw onto the camera)
I have to say that the level of negativity on this forum is very surprising. There seems to be a lot of very unhappy people here. I posted a simple warning and I get called an ass.
jzucker wrote:
Glenn, the ballhead cannot be adjusted wider.
Some of you guys kill me. You'd spend $300 for a ballhead to sit on a tabletop tripod to sit in your jaguar...
This place reminds me of the guitar forums where a Les Paul isn't good enough so they have to spend $10,000 on a hand made boutique version and then spend all their time waxing poetic about the build quality and shimmer of the wood.
Nobody is saying you should have spent $300 (though that isn't excessive for a good ballhead IMHO) or that there was anything wrong with trying to save money. But $22?
I've owned three ball heads over a period of about 20 years. The first was a Bogen, the second was an Arca Swiss, the third and present is a Really Right Stuff head. The Bogen cost about a fourth of what the other two cost. The Arca Swiss was, and the RRS is, a pleasure to use. The Bogen was made well but it wasn't nearly as smooth as the other two, it was kind of "sticky." Which meant it was almost impossible to make very fine adjustments of the kind that can be critical for architecture, products, etc. IMHO ball heads are one area where you do indeed get what you pay for.
jzucker wrote:
In fact this ballhead uses an arca style release very similar to my kirk plate (which also has to screw onto the camera)
I have to say that the level of negativity on this forum is very surprising. There seems to be a lot of very unhappy people here. I posted a simple warning and I get called an ass.
Well happy holidays folks.
You don't screw kirks ballheads straight into your camera.
you are supposed to use plates and quick releses with those (arca style)
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