Geared tripod heads

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Does anyone other than manfrotto do a geared tripod head? The cheapest option is the 410Junior which aint cheap ant £130ish. Anyone got one?

I'm shopping for a new tripod and head to hold my MF gear off the floor. Looking at a 410Junior head and an 055 tripod at the minute. Open to other suggestions but don't want a ball head or particularly a pan&tilt.
 
Kev, I have the Manfrotto 410 and I must say it is absolutely great. Not quick to adjust (ie not suitable for moving objects) but fabby for landscapes. Extra plates are expensive, but I use it for everything from a 300 2.8 to a 14 mm and it is extremely precise. Worth the money, Kev.
 
I kept an alert running on fleabay until I'd bought four extra 410PL plates, at £8-£10 each. Same type fits the 488RC4 ball head (and any other RC4 type). The plates are a lot easier to find, now.

Only criticism of the head is that after you've released it for a coarse adjustment and have gone back to geared, you can get a bit of a jump in position, which can be unnerving if you're winding away with your eye to the viewfinder.

You may want to replace the rubber on the plate with cork.
 
I saw that Arca-Swiss one when searching the other week. Beatuifullay engineered but costs more than all my camera gear combined.

My only concern is it's weight limit. It's advertised as 5KG and my MF setup weighs nearly all of that. Is it fully stable upto those weights or does it become a bit wobbly?
 
How do you get to 5kg? Bronica say the SQ-A with finder, back and lens is 1.5kg. I don't think my RZ67 gets near that.

Being Arca Swiss I imagine that it's rock solid up to 5KG. Apparently the knobs can be a bit of a pain, according the guy I saw using one in Leicester Square I went to have a chat with.
 
Think I read my scales wrong, muppet:bang: No need to worry then.
 
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