pimpelmees
Well-known member
Hello, can I fit the foot of the Swarovski balance rail for scopes directly in the manfrotto head without using the manfrotto plate ?
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Manfrotto 500 head + balance rail (1 Viewer)
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Hi,
i haven't found any specs for the balance rail on the Swaro site (yay new page layout which does everything to hide info from the visitor and tries hard to sell an experience).
But since the only head they offer atm is the CTH and that has an Arca Swiss compatible mount and plate as per its manual, I would expect the balance rail to have the same... and thus not directly fit the Manfrotto 500AH, which takes Manfrotto 500PL style long plates.
Those do also serve the purpose to balance the scope, albeit with a bit less range than the Swaro balance rail (at least in their default form - there might be longer aftermarket ones) and of course don't have the adjustable objective rest of the swaro offering.
Joachim
i haven't found any specs for the balance rail on the Swaro site (yay new page layout which does everything to hide info from the visitor and tries hard to sell an experience).
But since the only head they offer atm is the CTH and that has an Arca Swiss compatible mount and plate as per its manual, I would expect the balance rail to have the same... and thus not directly fit the Manfrotto 500AH, which takes Manfrotto 500PL style long plates.
Those do also serve the purpose to balance the scope, albeit with a bit less range than the Swaro balance rail (at least in their default form - there might be longer aftermarket ones) and of course don't have the adjustable objective rest of the swaro offering.
Joachim
somersetcyclist
Member
From the SWOptics website Balance rail fits on the tripod mount of the scope and then fits directly onto the quick release plate of the tripod head, eg a Manfrotto MN128 RC or MVH500AH or one of Swarovski's own brand heads.
Ignatius
Naturwissenschaftliches Nudelaug
The BR natively only fits onto Arca-Swiss clamps. Manfrotto do their own thing and apart from maybe one or two heads none of them will accept arca-compatible plates - or indeed the BR. So you will almost certainly have to put the BR onto a Manfrotto plate that is compatible with your head. Video heads have odd plates anyway ... just to complicate matters further. For those reasons I now avoid Manfrotto stuff like the plague.
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