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If you just need a leveling base, you can sometimes find a used Acratech one in that range or maybe one of the old kaidan units for less.
Another option is to get a different head like the arca swiss P0 (already mentioned), or a
ball head you can use upside down, so you use the ball to level and its rotating base to pan - the acratech GP series of heads do this.
FWIW, if you are going to be doing a lot of panos, you may want to consider getting something that has detents so you don't have to be trying to read your scales in the dark, in the early morning pre-caffiene, etc - like the manfrotto 300N - When I was really doing a lot of panos, I would use one of these with an arca plate on the bottom and arca clamp on the top - it clamped it in my normal ball head between the head and the camera - it worked pretty well...
Good Luck,
rkg
(Richard George)
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