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because of shake in the legs even with mirror lock up. It would seem that if I hang a
weight to the bottom of the centre column it will help reduce vibration but who
wants to carry around a 055 plus 20lb of balast? I also have the Benbo ball head,
the larger one ,not sure of the number. I like it a lot except for the QR plate. I plan
to modify it to a regular screw mount ,if possible, I feel QR plates are more gimick
than functional. Hope this helps... Melvin
-- melvin bramley, July 17, 2000
Well, I am another happy user of Canon professional ballhead #1. I followed
advises posted here and recently purchased it. It's well engineered and very sturdily
built piece of equipment. Someone here said it was best $60 spent in his life and I
join this opinion. Playing a lot with different ballheads I found Canon's baby
smoother and sturdier than any ballhead for this much of money (no, don't tell me
about Arca-Swiss, I can afford it but I don't need it). The minor thing - there is no
built-in quick release, but Bogen QR adapters fit this head very well. So if you
need it, it's only $25-30. Summarizing, I strongly recommend Canon's pro ballhead
to everyone. Place to buy? Adorama and B&H.
-- Yuriy Vilin, July 18, 2000
Well After almost exactly four month of waiting my B1 head has finally arrive.
That the good news, the bads news is I still can not use the dam thing because I
have no plates for it. I should have been smarter and order all the proper plates for
all my cameras and lens ahead of time either from Kirk or Really Right Stuff. That
my own fault, but I had reasons to put of the purchase of the plates. The first reason
of course is that the B-1 head was no where in sight, why tie up my money on the
plates when I could spend it on other things. Another reason is having to order the
plates from the United States which seem like such a big pain in the ass, especially
since they don't take credit cards(Really Right Stuff which are the plates I want) so
I keep putting it off. I put it off for so long that I have lost their Catalog. My final
reason was that my saleman was told by the Acrca Swiss distributor that a plate
was include with the head. I had to pick the B-1 Head in Toronto and though I
could pick a plate at one of many camera stores. No such luck, none of the stores
had a plate of any kind for a Arca Swiss quick release in stock. All the store claim
it was a special item they had to order in. To make a long story short, at the end of
the day I just decide to order a Acrca Swiss Plate right from B&H which had it in
stock and pay extra($36 US) to have it shipped Fed Ex Priorty to Canada. By the
time the Camera store in Toronoto get the plate from the distributor, which could
take any where from days to months, then have the camera store ship to me, it
could basically take forever. I am too busy to make multi trips to Toronto to pick
up stuff and gas is not cheap. I will eventually get all the proper plates from Really
Right Stuff, but why would Arca Swiss sell a Head with no plate at all? I know the
http://www.photo.net/equipment/tripods/philg (40 of 53)7/3/2005 2:21:13 AM