Recent content by Mawser

Magic. Thanks so much for your help (et al.!) Much more useful than the muppets in the shops.

I wouldn't say I'm prejudiced against ball heads, I prefer them over the alternatives. Having said that, I need to be able to document how many degrees away from horizontal I'm shooting in case I need to go back and retake images plus I'll have to put the info into a report writeup. That's why...

Right...thanks again. I've been out today to a couple of the bigger shops in the area for professional photography. Surprisingly they weren't a fat lot of help. Barely knew what Arca Swiss was Thanks Mark for the little write up about Arca Swiss, I'm with it now and totally on board with it, I...

Thanks for all the replies so far folks, very much appreciated and plenty of food for thought, almost too much! I need the panos to be highly accurate as they'll be used for photomontages - I'll need to bring in a 3d model and place it on the photo so it looks exactly as it would in real life...

Hi, I need to take highly accurate panoramas and was about to buy a whole load of kit but now I'm a little confused. Here's the list: Manfrotto 055XPROB Tripod Manfrotto 808RC4 3-way Head Manfrotto MA 454 Micro Positioning Plate Manfrotto MN338 Levelling base Is this overkill? I wasn't...