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Ron Skinner — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:09:06 +0000

Yeah love the Kirk replacement head, used it last night for fireworks, btw Amazon has a Neewer Nodal rail for only $22 dollars, I don’t think you can change the orientation of the Arca Swiss clamp on it, but it probably works well for shorter lenses without a mount and using the L-bracket
Also with the Kirk replacement head they give you the extra knob to replace the Manfrotto panning knob.

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Jane Gimpelj — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 01:34:54 +0000

I just received the Kirk top plate and put it onto my Manfrotto fluid head. It looks great and hope to try it out soon. I will have to save up for the Kirk long plate if I find the balance is off when using my 70-200 lens. I like how there is a place for the allen key.

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Ron Skinner — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 04:58:00 +0000

I got mine at B&H too!!! Great minds think alike!!! LOL

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Jane Gimpelj — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 01:23:20 +0000

I like the idea so much, that I bought one from B&H rather than directly from Kirk’s site. B&H gives free shipping for a bill over $95 and they also give the option to add the duty costs that I will pay to get it shipped to Canada (so I don’t have to deal with it). Thanks for the link, Ron.

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Ron Skinner — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:35:09 +0000

The great thing about the Kirk top plate is the arca swiss mount has a built in allen wrench that lets you rotate the mount the direction you need to mount either a long lens or the camera or the long plate. I was using the Manfrotto head and plates at first then saw this replacement arca swiss bridge on the Kirk site. I like it a lot!

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Jane Gimpelj — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:59:45 +0000

Ron, thanks for the info. I will look into the Kirk plate. Now that you showed the screenshot of the long rail, that would work. I think it is the one that Hudson showed in the Panoramic videos.
Right now, I am using the Manfrotto 500 fluid head, Arca swiss plate, Haoge plate on top of arca swiss plate (to use at 90 degree angle). It looks like the Kirk plate might work better.

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Ron Skinner — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:38:46 +0000

On a lot of my telephotos lenses my arca swiss plates are long enough to move and balance the camera when using shorter lenses and some telephoto lenses I use the Kirk long rail to be able to balance the camera, I noticed in Hudson’s new ON1 photo kit that he’s using the Kirk replacement head and a long rail now.

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Jane Gimpelj — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 06:33:39 +0000

Thanks for the link, Ron. If you use the Kirk plate, it doesn’t look like you would be able to move the camera forward/backward to balance it, would you? With the Manfrotto plate, you can slide the plate forward/backward to balance your camera and loosen the knobs so it behaves more like a gimble head.

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Ron Skinner — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:46:40 +0000

Yeah I switched to the fluid head too, in fact I liked it so much I bought two one for each tripod, btw Kirk makes a replacement top plate bridge to replace the manfrotto one, you just remove the four screws and remove the Manfrotto bridge and replace it with the Kirk one and never have to use a Manfrotto plate. https://www.kirkphoto.com/quick-release-clamps/quick-release-bridge-system-for-the-manfrotto-mvh-500-fluid-video-head.html

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Ron Skinner — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:46:40 +0000