Upgrading a photographic tripod.

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I have quite a sturdy Manfrotto photographic tripod. I understand that it may be possible to upgrade the mount or head by attaching some sort of head that will take a light weight telescope with a Vixen type dovetail.

Has anyone done this? Any advice on what can be done would be great.

Thanks

Martin.

[happy-kat]

Have a look at a thread by rodhull on heritage 130p tripod. It uses a eq clamp adaptor on a camera ball head to fix the dove tail bar to.

Link here

[PeterCPC]

Or have a look at this

Peter

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8 hours ago, Grumpy Martian said:

I have quite a sturdy Manfrotto photographic tripod. I understand that it may be possible to upgrade the mount or head by attaching some sort of head that will take a light weight telescope with a Vixen type dovetail.

Has anyone done this? Any advice on what can be done would be great.

Thanks

Martin.

Hi Martin,

I've done exactly this with a Manfrotto 055 Tripod. The Vixen Porta11 mount can be bolted onto an adaptor (was £40 from FLO) that allows you to then fit the whole thing onto a photo tripod.  Had the Manfrotto been painted white and not black, I would have left it permanently attached, as I've had "issues" with the Vixen tripod.  Much more portable and almost as stable - build quality of Manfrotto is leaps and bounds above that of the supplied Porta11 tripod, but having a white tripod is handy when you help with outreach.

There's a photo on this thread, hope that helps? 

Chris

 

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Thankyou all for the useful input.