on 4/7/03 7:01 PM, Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu at lamadoo@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is it me?
>
> I bought a used Bogen 3047 3-way head without instructions.
>
> I bolt the camera onto the quick-release plate securely but when I flip the
> camera to take a horizontal shot, the camera rotates
> around the screw, as if "voting" for straight down instead of "vertical".
>
> Against my own advice on do-it-yourself photo equipment, I'm thinking of
> dropping a bolt in the back of the plate so the OM4 can't
> rotate.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Lama
Digging in the boxes under the table at a camera show a while back, I came
across (but didn't buy...) a Bogen QR plate, hexagonal, with a metal piece
with a raised lip on it. From the appearance and the package instructions it
the lip was supposed to align with the back edge of your camera thus
freezing the alignment on the plate, and in the QR mechanism. Perhaps Bogen
still makes this variation? I don't know what you do if you don't use the
hexagonal QR plate (which is my situation, and why I didn't buy it.)
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
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