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Hi Mark..............
Aha, the old "lateral wobble on plate trick, huh, 99"?
First and formost, check the plate attachment screw for length with regard to the matching hole in the camera. Some screw/ hole combinations have the screw coming to a dead stop having bottomed out against the camera chassis before the camera is firmly affixed to the plate.
The cure for this is to put a non pliant but soft shim between the plate and camera base to take up the slack. The plastic lid from a 4 pint ice cream container works well here.
If that isn't the problem then it's most likely the rubber finish on the camera base having enough give to allow the camera to flex about it's rediculous single screw fixing.
The only option here is to actually pin the camera to the plate using a narrow webbing strap wrapped once around the upper handle then down each side of the camera and under the head where each end is connected and tightened. Most good camping stores will sell you a "Trangia" strap which is almost perfect for the job, dependant on the camera and head design.
On the Vision 3 mine tends to tilt the camera forward giving me a forwards/ backwards wobble instead of the side to side wobble.
Some genius will, one day, actually design a proper 4 point screw fixing system which will eliminate this sort of problem.
What am I saying?
I already have.
It's getting someone to actually adopt it that's the problem.
CS
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