The Ultimate Tripod Head?

[Harold Gough]

Just when you thought you had seen it all:

http://www.hitechsphere.com/2010/03/git ... -gh5130rc/

http://www.gitzo.com/cms/site/gitzo/hea ... e=GH5130RC

Order yours now before the price goes up :

http://www.cliftoncameras.co.uk/Gitzo_Athena_GH5130RC


Harold

[enricosavazzi]

It will be a while before I will think of buying one, but some among those of us who have already tackled the construction of automated focus stackers might be tempted to give it a try cooking up something functionally equivalent.

[Chris S.]

I've been thinking a lot about building something that does what this product does, and more. I agree with Enrico--many at this forum could do it, with much less cost and much more fun.

Harold, thanks for bringing an interesting and obscure new product to my attention--as you often do.

Cheers,

--Chris

[AndrewC]

Not too different to the many automated panning heads out there.

http://www.gigapanbot.com/

http://www.kolor.com/buy/photo-hardware/motorized-head

and many others

[Ulf W]

When building such a contraption, to avoid parallax problems, it is important to make the mount of the camera flexible enough to make it possible to place the no parallax point of the optics in the rotation center.

Rik wrote an excellent article about this a few years ago:
http://www.janrik.net/PanoPostings/NoPa ... xPoint.pdf

I could not see whether the Gitzo head was designed that way, but I didn't look that closely.

/Ulf