Sirui PH-10 Swing Head
€279.00
Sirui PH-10 Swing Head
The Sirui PH-10 is a lightweight carbon tripod head specially made for cameras with telephoto lenses. The gimbal design allows you to rotate the lens around the center of its center of gravity. This makes it easy to use long and heavy telephoto lenses without effort.
The Sirui PH-10 swing head head is a great solution for shooting moving subjects with a long telephoto lens without any problem. Ball heads and three-way heads can be tricky to use in situations with fast-moving subjects, but the special construction of this gimbal head makes your camera and heavy lens seem weightless and you can track your moving subjects quickly, smoothly and accurately.
Cross-laid, 10-layer carbon construction in the arm and a forged aluminum alloy in the L-bracket make the PH-10 very strong - it can hold up to 15 kg, but weighs only 0.94 kg. The carbon fibers also reduce vibration and provide better tolerance to temperature changes.
Once the camera with its lens is perfectly balanced on this rocking head, it is actually no longer necessary to lock the controls. You can quickly and easily move your camera in any direction with a very light amount of force.
In fact, a properly aligned system can be operated with just one finger.
The Sirui PH-10 is a great gimbal head. I can highly recommend it. It is compact, lightweight and affordable. The bearings run smoothly but there is a little play in the horizontal bearing. Two more small disadvantages: the supplied coupling plate is too short, for my Nikon D7200 in combination with Sigma 150 – 600 mm. at least 100 mm. is needed. The compact design has the disadvantage that the lens has to be mounted too high, which means that the whole thing does not always remain in balance. If you do not do this, you cannot photograph high enough to follow birds.