 Andrew Laverghetta |
Bogen/Manfrotto Tripod Head Hi! I just got my first really good tripod (meaning I had to buy legs and a head seperately lol). My question is more about the head. It's the Manfrotto 3030 3way pan/tilt. It's really great but I'm not sure of how something works. There's a knob which generally will control the up/down movement of the camera while on the head but I believe shoot with the camera in vertical orientation, you have to turn the camera sideways and use that same axis to tilt the camera sideways. Then, I don't have any way to move the camera up and down while it's vertical unless I actually turn the camera on the place that holds it on the tripod. Any advice on this? I'll make it a little simpler if that didn't make sense. I turn the camera on it's side to shoot vertical but if I'm higher than the subject, I can't tilt the camera down without adjusting the quick release plate. Thanks for your help!
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Kerry L. Walker |
Andrew, I have a Manfroto 3021BN with a 2029 head, which is basically the same head as yours without the quick release plate. If you will PM me and give me your phone # I will try to walk you through it.
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Nobu Nagase |
Certainly can't beat Kerry's super cutstomer support offer. I used to use 3030, btw. I used the handgrip B to position the camera in vertical mode, and I could still use the handgrip C (the middle one) to pivot the camera Up and Down.
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Andrew Laverghetta |
Here's a photo for reference... The bottom grip moves left and right, the middle moves up and down, and the top one is the....hmm, sorry, I'm stupid lol. Ok, the top one moves what would be called "roll" in aerial manuevers. Yeah, so, I feel dumb now... I figure I'll just turn the top one to the side and then use the normal up and down (middle grip) to aim up or down. I think what threw me off is the plate that attaches to the camera. It has two arrows on it showing which way the camera mounts on it. One to the normal horizontal part and another pointing down the legth of the plate saying "Lens (points this way)." I'll still post the picture anyway... I was really excited to hear "the legend" though, hehe.
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||
|
This old forum is now archived. Use improved Forum here
Report this Thread |
|||||||||||
