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Monogimbal - lever or knob style clamp?

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Snapshotx7 Regular Member • Posts: 471
Monogimbal - lever or knob style clamp?

Leofoto offers a version of the Wimberly MH-100 monogimbal in both a knob style and lever style clamp.  The lever style clamp can be half opened to allow for easy balancing, but does not have a way to adjust the clamp force for small adjustments to the width for varying sizes of arca swiss plates.  If given the option whether it's Leofoto, Wimberly, or other brands, would you choose on style clamp of the other? I will be balancing a 100-400mm lens and camera on this monogimbal if that makes a difference.

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Nikon Z6 Nikon AP-F 70-300mm F4.5-5.6E Nikon Z 24-70mm F4 Nikon Z 14-30mm F4 Nikon Z 100-400mm
zero214
zero214 Regular Member • Posts: 238
Re: Monogimbal - lever or knob style clamp?

Use the original Wimberly, its clamp is big and has enough surface to clamp the gears, I use it to hold an entire skytracker and telephoto lens plus counterweight in EQ mode with no problems!

I won't trust Leo lever clamp after a few problems with their gears, and using a worse copy is bad taste in my view.

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Canon EOS R Canon EOS M6 II Canon EOS Ra Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM Canon EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM +4 more
afoton
afoton Senior Member • Posts: 1,870
Re: Monogimbal - lever or knob style clamp?
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I allways choose knob style, because I prefer that.

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