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stuarty wrote:
Would love to but Wimberley sidekick is a bleed fortune here..
I have a ballhead and when I take the 5 seconds to install the Sidekick I then have a gimball head on the same tripod. I get two heads in effect and do not need to have one tripod for the ballhead and a second tripod with a gimbal head mounted. To me this represents a significant cost savings any way you look at it.
The Sidekick costs $250 and a good gimball head from Custom Brackets, RRS, Wimberley, and others is going to cost $600.
For static shots with a big lens a ballhead with a pan base is all that is needed as with the Kirk BH-3 for example. For wildlife the gimball is great for managing a heavy lens and for that the Sidekick is the cheapest way to go.
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