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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HANDLE TIME
All orders will be scheduled for shipment in 1 to 3 business days, excluding holidays.
COUNTRIES
We ship worldwide.
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
Looking forward to making aurora pictures, with a nice sharp milky way. It's nice to have something made of good material.
The MSM/Alyn Wallace V-mount is a great addition to my astrophotography set up. Thank you!
I am really enjoying using the V mount for both macro photography and on top of the Nomad to give my tripod head a level base. Highly recommend. I plan to get the Z mount soon.
The 360° Flex Tilt & Pan Head is a very useful addition for my old Astrotrac TT320X star tracker, which is limited to 2 hours of tracking before it needs to be re-wound (and which impacts the framing if you need integration longer than 2 hours). With the Tilt & Pan Head attached to the star tracker, I can rotate my camera in right ascension to match the framing before the tracker was re-wound. Sure, you can also do this with a panning ball head, however, the Tilt & Pan head has a larger base and a much better calibrated panning dial. A great piece of kit.
Easy ordering and super material, best workmanship
Effective support in case of delivery problems
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!