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Re: 360Precision Atome - Lens Clasp Panoramic Tripod Head

Keith,

Keith> it seems like the perfect bit of precision kit for guerilla pano shoots
Keith>and when shooting in lively crowds.

That is pretty much why we came up with it. When I have taken shots in a 'tourist mode' (i.e. lugging tripod+cam around with me and walking from spot to spot) I have always been wary of lugging the tripod with the head+cam over my shoulder. It's certainly the easiest way to pickup+move a tripod, but you have a lot of weight and ££££ exposed and behind you. Removing and attaching the camera to head is preferable in this situation, but I personally can never be bothered to do this in the field and just throw the lot over my shoulder!

With this system you shoot with the camera still strapped around your neck, never needing to unstrap it from yourself. Slap the tripod up, clip cam into head, meter the scene, shoot, and unclip. Camera safely under side of arm, tripod over other,  move on. It should certainly make shooting in larger and more busy areas quite a bit more efficient and less worrysome.

In an ideal world of course we would have a team of strong assistants to do all the lugging for us.....but of course photographers that can afford a team are not our target audience with this one :-D

Kindest,

Stu

PS. Matt has been bugging me to go and shoot a set of VR's from around Cambridge. When I get the sig 8 3.5 head back I'll go and do a field study with it and my D300, which incidentally is a very impressive cam, highly recommended! 
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