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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Mounting camera on leveling base vs ball head | |
The leveling base limits you to like about plus or minus 15 degrees of tilt side to side or front to back, while a ball head is a lot more. The ball head also has the pan base for easy panoramas after leveling, as well as the slot to tip the whole ball and camera over in to. with the slot and the ball adjustments, you can point the camera any direction, including straight up. If you can live with the limited motion, and live with slower adjustments, and live with no pan base, then you may want to go that way.
For me I will always want a ball head, even for mostly landscape shooting. If I was traveling light, I would use a ball head only, and for panos I would level the tripod and shoot using the ball head pan base, with camera tilt as required including doing multi row panos. Since you all ready own the PG-02, then your thinking may sway a bit away from a ball head.
I own a PG-02 but only very rarely use it for panos. I also use the RRS lever release system for fast change of what head is mounted on any given tripod between a ball head or a gimbal or a pano-gimbal like the PG-02, but that all adds weight and cost. So my light weight system is usually configured with a BH-40, and my heavier tripods are lever quick change for various heads, and then with or without a leveling base below.
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