Mike Watson
April 22nd, 2017, 01:37 AM
Sometimes after 20 years in this business I come up with what feels like a rookie question, and this is one of them.
I have been using an ancient Manfrotto sticks/head combo that the guy threw in when I bought a camera around 2002. I don't know the model number, might be 501hdv.
Couple years back I bought a Edelkrone slider. It mounts on a 3/8" stud and has a 3/8" stud emerging from it on which to attach the head. I figured out that if you locked down the pan-lock and twisted the head off the Manfrotto, you'd leave the 75mm ball part with a 3/8" stud emerging from it, you could attach the slider to that stud, and then screw the head you'd just removed back on to the slider. It was super convenient.
A variety of things not germane to this story happened which led me to demote this head/sticks to the B-kit and buy a new tripod. I bought Manfrotto again, 504 head and 546 sticks. Side note in which to say when you buy a new set of sticks for the first time in 15 years, wow, that baby is smooth as butter!
Time comes to put the slider on this head, and I can't do the same trick with this one - it only seems to go on or off via the traditional "remove the ball" method. Closing the pan-lock and cranking it left only seems to attempt to damage my shiny new head.
Does this head do the same thing? If not, what do folks do to get a slider like this on sticks like this?
I have been using an ancient Manfrotto sticks/head combo that the guy threw in when I bought a camera around 2002. I don't know the model number, might be 501hdv.
Couple years back I bought a Edelkrone slider. It mounts on a 3/8" stud and has a 3/8" stud emerging from it on which to attach the head. I figured out that if you locked down the pan-lock and twisted the head off the Manfrotto, you'd leave the 75mm ball part with a 3/8" stud emerging from it, you could attach the slider to that stud, and then screw the head you'd just removed back on to the slider. It was super convenient.
A variety of things not germane to this story happened which led me to demote this head/sticks to the B-kit and buy a new tripod. I bought Manfrotto again, 504 head and 546 sticks. Side note in which to say when you buy a new set of sticks for the first time in 15 years, wow, that baby is smooth as butter!
Time comes to put the slider on this head, and I can't do the same trick with this one - it only seems to go on or off via the traditional "remove the ball" method. Closing the pan-lock and cranking it left only seems to attempt to damage my shiny new head.
Does this head do the same thing? If not, what do folks do to get a slider like this on sticks like this?