360° Flex Tilt & Pan Head - Z&V Mount Designed with Alyn Wallace, Buy Nice or buy Twice - The best gift for you and your loved ones 🎁
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All orders will be scheduled for shipment in 1 to 3 business days, excluding holidays.
COUNTRIES
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WAREHOUSES
Currently, we have 4 warehouses.
🇺🇸 US warehouse, for our US users, parcel usually arrives in 1-7 days.
🇪🇺 EU warehouse, for most EU countries, parcel usually arrives in 1-7 days.
🇦🇺 AU warehouse, for our Australia and New Zealand users, parcel usually arrives around 1-7 days.
🇨🇳 CN warehouse, for all countries, parcel arrives in 4-7 or 8-20 days, please check below for details.
Specification:
Max load: 4kg
Item weight:
Z Platform, 220 gram
V Platform, 175 gram
Material: Aluminum Alloy
Below is a quick review of the journey, we hope you enjoy:
On the 14th June 2020, MSM ambassador Alyn Wallace told us that he has an idea for a new star tracker platform to solve the following problems:
The Problem:
- When at latitudes close to the equator it becomes very difficult to use the ball head on top of a star tracker.
-It’s also difficult to do panoramas, regardless of latitude.
The Solution
Adding a “Star Tracker Platform” so that the ball head becomes level. The angle can be adjusted and locked into place and the platform can also be rotated. The platform is a perfect match for the Move Shoot Move rotator but also works with any star tracker..
Later, we researched all the possible alternative solutions, practicing and using, finally came to the first version as below:
1st Version, mainly verifying the mechanism to lock the angled platform and also the rotating base.
2nd Version, Enlarged the center rotation section.
3rd version,
- Wrapped the rotating disc to prevent dust entering.
- Changed screw to handle.
4th Version,
Added more space for the bottom handle, so we can operate with gloves.
And Finally, the final 5th Version, with some minor improvements to launch the production.
Below is the performance of the MSM Platform
Below is the performance of OTHERS
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Work as a tripod head
The V platform is for those who want to save weight. If you're already using a heavy setup you may not have much room to add weight on top of the MSM which has a payload of 3kg.
The Z platform has the added benefit of being able to be used to replace the ball head on a tripod when not using a star tracker at all. You can also use the Z platform as a table-top tripod. So it's an exchange of versatility for a little added weight.
Customer Reviews
360° Flex Tilt & Pan Head - Z&V Mount Designed with Alyn Wallace, Buy Nice or buy Twice - The best gift for you and your loved ones 🎁
Just received my tracker and I can say that is amazing. Also, the support by Hanna was pretty impresive.
I love them both. Theres a little issue, i had to put some WD-40 on the locking screws. I almost broke my fingers trying to tighten them. Thats why i only gave it 4 star rating.
The tracker work nicely with the laser only pointing Polaris, I have the Polar Scope too not tryed today, but I have re-calibrated the two.
Good product for travels.
It took me awhile to get set up and know how to find the South Celestial Pole, but now that I know what I'm doing the results of my (much longer) long exposure shots with so little star motion is so much better!
I have had few opportunities to use my MSM Nomad due to the British weather seldom relenting and allowing a couple of hours of cloud free night sky. However on the few occasions it has been clear I have found the kit easy to setup and use. It is incredibly light and easily fits in the bag along with camera and lenses. It does an excellent job of tracking the deep space objects I am interested in photographing by taking multiple images and stacking the results.
I originally purchased the Nomad Starter Kit but have since added a tilt and pan V mount, the wedge and critically here, due to a moist atmosphere so lots of dew formation on the lens, the lens warmer band, all of which have been invaluable.
I should also mention the excellent and cheerful help provided by the Head of Customer Service Hanna Tsai to all my queries and requests.
I've never liked ball heads and thought that maybe I could swap to one of these. I've not looked back and now can't live with out it. I use it for all photography and not just astro.
It's so flexible for my needs and when the right angle is achieved (even the most acute), the structure remains super rigid and firmly in place 😊
I do wish that the adjusting levers were a little larger, however, I think this feedback has already been listened to for the 5th generation and I can easily change them if they becomes too bothersome 🤩
Love it!
360° Flex Tilt & Pan Head - Z&V Mount Designed with Alyn Wallace, Buy Nice or buy Twice - The best gift for you and your loved ones 🎁
I’ve used this now for andromeda and Milky Way pictures and it has worked great! Love the compact form and how easy it is to setup
I've been waiting for clear skies so I can try out my new MSM Nomad.
Last night there was about an hour window open between full sunset and incoming clouds and the moon rising. I managed to get a backyard Milky Way and a peek at Andromeda, our nearest galaxy neighbor, before the clouds and moonlight washed them away. The next night I tried Andromeda again this time for 3 1/2 minute exposures and with a 105 mm lens. I was delighted with the ease of locking up and pointed to Polaris with just the laser pointer. No stair trails and a great result.
