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Considering a fluid head - A7Riv and Tamron 28-200

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OP Craig Gillette Forum Pro • Posts: 12,994
Re: Considering a fluid head - A7Riv and Tamron 28-200

I've read about this one, haven't seen it in the wild, so to speak.  I'd have to set up with anRC2/Arca Swiss adapter.  Plenty out there.  Might want two, one primarily for use with L brackets and maybe one oriented for a long lens foot, too.   From the various reviews, mixed comments or impressions on the pan and/or tilt performance - which is pretty common.  Not really a surprise that sub $200 heads don't perform up there with professional high end models that cost many hundred if not thousands of dollars.

I don't recall having come across anything that got universally poor comments.  I think the Manfrotto MVH502AH gets the most intensely divided sets of comments.  It seems the placement of the pan and tilt controls don't bother a fair number of users and are completely unacceptable to many as well.  (For me, not having experience, I don't know how awful the placement is/isn't.  Otherwise aside from it's size and weight, it gets a lot of very positive commentary.)

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