Pano Head Help - Please

[CraigVTR]

I am currently costing what it would cost me to buy a pano head before I go on my next holiday in June. I do not want to spend a thousand bucks on a super piece of gear as it will not get used enough to justify the expense, that would also end in divorce. So I have been looking at the Sunway gear, but I have no experience, or equipment with the Ara Swiss style clamps so will need a QR plate for the camera as well as a rail and panning head. I currently have a ball head to which the panning head could be affixed. These are the three items at which I am looking;

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... K:MEWAX:IT
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... K:MEWAX:IT
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... K:MEWAX:IT

I am having trouble working out if the items are compatible with a D300 and Battery Grip. Also how the QR plate would attach to the rail, it looks to me the camera would be orientated 90 degrees in the wrong direction.

Can anyone give me a bit of advice.
Thanks

[radar]

Craig,

I am having trouble working out if the items are compatible with a D300 and Battery Grip. Also how the QR plate would attach to the rail, it looks to me the camera would be orientated 90 degrees in the wrong direction.

That QR place is oriented the wrong way for what you want to do with it. What you actually need for panos is an L-bracket so you can put the camera in portrait mode when shooting panos, something like:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/SUNWAYFOTO-Unive ... 1360wt_907

Note that the L-bracket I point to above is a generic one, so take notice of the caveats that they have on the link. Not sure if they have other L-brackets, didn't look extensively through their items.

The other two parts are fine.

cheers,

André

[CraigVTR]

Thanks Andre

I can always remove the grip when I want to take a pano as it only takes about 5 seconds.

I willl keep looking.