• $109 one - http://www.adorama.com/FP3PV3AH.html
• $139 one - http://www.adorama.com/FP3PV2AH.html

Anyone heard of this? Someone said that it's a rebadged fluid head, but he doesn't know which one. It does seem smoother than the FM18, though.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/…/Libec_rs_250r_LX5_Tripod_With…

I paid 859.00 for this package new. I'm willing to sell it for 600.00 obo.

I live in Brooklyn so I prefer NYC buyers. Otherwise, add shipping and handling to the price. I do not except Paypal - Only check, money order, cash, Chase Quick Pay, or Wire Xfer.

EM me at saintmarkspictures@gmail.com if interested.

Don't know too much about it's specs, but I do know O'Connor fluid heads are legendary!

Pan and tilts fine, has a bit of a squeak when panning. Should be able to fix with some lubing.

Gitzo tripod has a ball head with 3/8" mount. Also works fine, just old.

Pictures show actual item.

$400 OBO.

Not sure how they should attach? The Manfrotto video tripod legs (755XB) also have the same 3/8" attachment I think so unless it is female (and it doesn't look to be), am I missing something?

I thought the half bowl itself would have movement to allow me to level my camera without adjusting tripod legs, but it was rigid so I've reboxed it and returning for the flat base fluid head instead. I guess the flat base means a female 3/8" connector?

Only problem then being I need everything ready for Friday!!

Head being returned: http://www.manfrotto.co.uk/lightweight-fluid-video-head-60mm-half-ball Head on the way: http://www.manfrotto.co.uk/lightweight-fluid-video-head-flat-base Tripod: http://www.manfrotto.co.uk/aluminium-tripod-4-section-190

I'll take some new pics of it if anyone is interested.

Vic

'A pocketable supplement for super-smooth video camera handling. Converts standard tripods into a mobile jibarm with stunning results.'

Anyone using this hybrid head?

For that I focused the camera on a strong light, started recording and then I quickly panned the camera horizontally on the tripod while varying the shutter speed. Then I looked at consecutive frames and measured the light interruption (measures.jpg) and computed the fluidity normalizing it as a percentage of the average segment length.

The results are in the attachment (MotionFlow.zip) which is also shown as a screenshot (MotionFlow.PNG). They are approximations as the values can have some variation, but will clearly show you which are the good ones and the others to avoid at all cost.

The resulting videos can also be downloaded (they are very small) from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ezz6zroqcronq28,ova2axx3qjev573,ca6o3g4cjhx46lc

As you can see, HBR 25p easily beats all other 1080p modes with no less than 5 100% FLUID motion shutter speeds, 4 of them very useful indeed. Now it's time to perform some tests to see (subjectively of course) how much we can notice it and how high can we tolerate the interruption before the motion flow stops looking natural.

(EDIT) The ideal patch GOPs should be useful in this thread. Here they are:

SS - Frequency of new frames - Ideal patch GOP

24p & 25p HBR

1/2s - 1/13 - GOP13

1/2.5 - 1/10 - GOP10

1/3.2 - 1/8 - GOP8

1/4 - 1/7 - GOP7

1/5 - 1/5 - GOP5

1/6 - 1/4 - GOP4

1/8 - 1/4 - GOP4

1/10 - 1/3 - GOP3

1/13 - 1/2 - GOP2

1/15 - 1/2 - GOP2

1/20 - 1/2 - GOP2

SS - Frequency of new frames - Ideal patch GOP

30p HBR

1/2s - 1/16 - GOP16

1/2.5 - 1/12 - GOP12

1/3.2 - 1/10 - GOP10

1/4 - 1/8 - GOP8

1/5 - 1/6 - GOP6

1/6 - 1/5 - GOP5

1/8 - 1/4 - GOP4

1/10 - 1/3 - GOP3

1/13 - 1/3 - GOP3

1/15 - 1/2 - GOP2

1/20 - 1/2 - GOP2