I betcha you'll be happier with a real macro lens and a geared
head (not to be confused with a gearhead). I do a lot of macro
and tele stuff, and I've found the Manfrotto 405 geared head to be
the solution to a problem that caused me to cuss like a sailor for
many years: you frame the photo, lock the pan or ball head, and
everything droops a half millimeter and the entire composition is
now cockeyed. Not with this beauty. Ya turns the knobs, ya
composes da picture, ya trips the shutter. Life is good.
Walt
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:59:54 -0800
>How many of us have struggled with macro composition, trying to
>adjust tripods in sub-millimeters, bumping the tripod and having
>to start all over, having the tiniest movement affect focus?
>
>With a shift lens on an extension tube, you set up reasonably
>parallel to the subject plane, focus, then compose by shifting.
>This is MUCH easier than using a macro slider!
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