I don\'t see any Wimberley knock-offs being near the quality of the Wimberley Head
I vote that we stop calling them Wimberley Knock-offs as the Wimberley itself is a knock-off. Also some of the Chinese made gimbal heads are easily as good as (or maybe better than) the Wimberley. I was in the store yesterday and held the Berno (sp?) next to the Wimberley mounted them and gave them a spin with a dead EF 800 and a dead 1D sitting there just for that. I walked away thinking the Berno (sp?) was not only better made but also had way smoother and finer adjustments. But both the Wimberley and the Berno (sp) were priced identically too tho.
The Beike does seem like it\'s inferior by holding it and looking at it. But in actual use after setting it up, it\'s so close to the same you couldn\'t tell the difference without looking! I guarantee it! And of course the Wimberley costs exactly six times as much... And I should add in all fairness to the Beike that if there\'s nothing sitting next to it to compare it\'s looks to it looks like a very capable and serious piece of rigging - which of course in practice it actually is.
May 17, 2012 at 05:57 AM
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And I should add in all fairness to the Beike that if there\'s nothing sitting next to it to compare it\'s looks to it looks like a very capable and serious piece of rigging - which of course in practice it actually is.