tripod head

[Kayaker72]

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that gimbals are more for heavier equipment where you will be shooting from a tripod thus you want nice fluid motion. My take would be that a good midsized ballhead. I have a Markins Q3T that is great. In my research I had come down to the Markins or Really Right Stuff BH-30 or BH-40. I had also heard good things about Photoclam and, more recently, Oben.

Since I am already posting old tables I put together, here was my table comparing ballheads. Here is the original thread. I learned a lot over the course of the thread.