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<blockquote data-quote="Kias" data-source="post: 103500" data-attributes="member: 9496">That is a Vanguard GH-100 Pistol Grip Ball Head.&nbsp; I love it!&nbsp; Though, if your grip strength is on the weaker side, I wouldn't recommend it.I got it specifically to move the camera to another position rapidly.&nbsp; There's a Boeing 747 that sneaks up on me at least once a year out here, and I've yet been able to get a good picture of it.&nbsp; It looks like it's flying about 50 feet off the ground, though I know it has to be at least 500, that's the law.&nbsp; But you can barely hear it running, it's always flying dirty and slow in landing configuration with flaps full out and wheels down, and it just gradually and slowly makes a right hand turn over my house and heads back towards the airport some 40ish miles away.It always scares me though.&nbsp; I just turn around and there's this HUGE aircraft right in my face!&nbsp; It doesn't appear to be going fast enough to even stay in the air.&nbsp; But Vso is around 115 kts, so I know it's probably at least 30% above that.&nbsp; It just doesn't belong out around the cornfields so it just looks wrong in so many ways.Anway, that's my mission this year, to shoot that plane!---Hmmm.. Hope the FBI doesn't take that out of context!---</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kias, post: 103500, member: 9496"] That is a Vanguard GH-100 Pistol Grip Ball Head. I love it! Though, if your grip strength is on the weaker side, I wouldn't recommend it. I got it specifically to move the camera to another position rapidly. There's a Boeing 747 that sneaks up on me at least once a year out here, and I've yet been able to get a good picture of it. It looks like it's flying about 50 feet off the ground, though I know it has to be at least 500, that's the law. But you can barely hear it running, it's always flying dirty and slow in landing configuration with flaps full out and wheels down, and it just gradually and slowly makes a right hand turn over my house and heads back towards the airport some 40ish miles away. It always scares me though. I just turn around and there's this HUGE aircraft right in my face! It doesn't appear to be going fast enough to even stay in the air. But Vso is around 115 kts, so I know it's probably at least 30% above that. It just doesn't belong out around the cornfields so it just looks wrong in so many ways. Anway, that's my mission this year, to shoot that plane! ---Hmmm.. Hope the FBI doesn't take that out of context!--- [/QUOTE]

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