Gizmodo
If you're a video shooter who uses a tripod. then you know how important a fluid head can be. It makes all the difference in the world in the smoothness of your pans and tilts. Here's an improvement on the art of fluid heads from Manfrotto, the 503HDV introduced here at NAB. It brings a number of new features to the already-sweet 503. For one, the fluid drag knob was moved to the left side and combined with the release mechanism.
Other welcome improvements are the backlight for the level bubble, a replaceable lock-rosette, and a four-step counterbalancing mechanism. They've refined the profile of the unit as well, so that it has the sleeker lines of the 501 heads. No pricing was available yet, but the 503HDV's predecessor, the 503, is $274.
Get yourself a good fluid head like this one, vid-shooters, and your camera moves will be smooth as a baby's butt.
Product Page [Manfrotto]
Comments
Yeah, baby that right. You hold up that Kraznogorsk. Uhhhhhh..... Yeah. That's the money shot right there....
But in all seriousness, that's a beautiful head. One of the neatest things I've ever seen from Bogen/Manfrotto was a $129 monopod wherein you could actually unfold three legs, and make yourself a modest tripod. Very cool.
Love the Bogen/Manfrotto stuff.
Easy to use and robust, even in the hands of Law Enforcement which is saying something.
(they tend to play rough with their toys)
One year professional use maximum and its trash. Whos kidding who? You get what you pay for. Buy a Sachtler, Miller, Vinten, or Cartoni and it will last for ten times as long as a Bogen/Manfrodo. Cost five times as much but last ten times as long.
Bogen/Manfrodo is strickly amateur stuff. Low end prosumer.
I like manfrotto tripods, you get triple the music without losing portability or stability.
That headline is terrible btw
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