Bogen / Manfrotto 701RC2 Mini Fluid Video Head w/Sliding RC2 Rapid Connect Plate @ richardeward.com

Bogen / Manfrotto 701RC2 Mini Fluid Video Head w/Sliding RC2 Rapid Connect Plate
from Bogen

Features:

• Delivers a wide range of balancing positions
• Single pan handle
• Compact and lightweight but can hold loads up to 8.8 pounds

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Good video head
  Very fluid motion in all directions. Has mechanism to balance the camera in place when you let go of the handle.

• Doesn't Stay Level
  For the money, this is not a bad fluid-action pan/tilt head, and at first it seems to be made with high precision and strength, which of course is great.
  BUT, after using it for more than a year, and having constant problems levelling my camera, I realized that the head goes out of level when you pan it! Seriously, I set the tripod/head/camera to perfectly level (which is often a several-minute procedure) then pan 90 degrees, and it's out of level! If you watch closely as you pan, you can see that the... more info

• Great tool
  I mounted this fluid head on a Joby GP3-01EN Gorillapod SLR-Zoom Flexible Tripod for Digital SLR Cameras and used it to video wildlife on a safari in Kenya. I would wrap the Gorillapod legs around the rollbar of the Land Rover and use the bubble on the fluid head to get it level. With the huge zoom I had I don't know how I could have gotten some of the shots I did without this setup.

• Pan drag not adequate
  I compared the 701rc2 to the discontinued Manfrotto 3130 and found this item to be seriously lacking.
  1) The pan drag cannot really be tensioned despite the use of the locks. This means it's really hard to do a smooth pan at high zoom levels as there's no back tension to push against. You have to be able to vary the drag due to different cameras used. While one can argue the locks are locks and not a drag lever, on the 3130 the locks can also be used to increase drag, and this is true of even the high... more info

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