I’ve always used ball heads because they are more compact, the cheaper ball heads have been shit. The best ball head I’ve tried has been a manfrotto 494. At the moment I’ve got a slik mini sprint tripod, was planning on changing the ball head to a manfrotto 494 but haven’t needed to as the one that came on the slik mini sprint does the job well with a 65mm spotting scope on it. It’s probaly slightly easier to pan around if you’re glassing with a fluid head but still easily doable with a ball head. That’s what binos are for anyway![]()
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