Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Okay folks I found a way to make the Cambo leveling head useful otherwise it is a big junk of metal on the Cambo that if attached as it is would be the size of a big ballhead permanently attached to your cambo which honestly is a bad design. Anyway this is kind of nice for Cambo users. So take a cambo leveling head as it is today. See pic below
Than take the 4 screws off the top and remove the section that connects to the camera and put in box. Underneath is a small pilot hole. What I did was Tap a 1/4 coarse screw hole in it so I can take a Arca Swiss flip lock and screw it down on to the base. See Pic below
Than at Ace hardware I got a tapered bolt with allen screw down in 1/4 size at 5/8 in long and bolted it on. Now I leave my existing Cambo mount on the camera use a Arca Plate for quick release and than I have a geared head. I am putting a leveling base on my tripod for the gross adjustments than fine tune with the Cambo. Nice cheap way around the Cube and works really nice. Nice part for me on the RRS tripods I can easily switch this all out house a center column setup with my Arca Swiss Z1 for my DF. Now that i have 3 tech lenses which i consider a full kit than my personal shootingI will be leaving the DF home and just go out with my tech cam like many of us do these days.
BTW the bolt that comes with the flip lock you can use but it is metric which is fine to use but if you go with a standard 1/4 inch thread you can use other types of quick releases a lot easier to mount. Reason why i switched it to 1/4 inch. I will shoot a image of the final look here in a minute
Than take the 4 screws off the top and remove the section that connects to the camera and put in box. Underneath is a small pilot hole. What I did was Tap a 1/4 coarse screw hole in it so I can take a Arca Swiss flip lock and screw it down on to the base. See Pic below
Than at Ace hardware I got a tapered bolt with allen screw down in 1/4 size at 5/8 in long and bolted it on. Now I leave my existing Cambo mount on the camera use a Arca Plate for quick release and than I have a geared head. I am putting a leveling base on my tripod for the gross adjustments than fine tune with the Cambo. Nice cheap way around the Cube and works really nice. Nice part for me on the RRS tripods I can easily switch this all out house a center column setup with my Arca Swiss Z1 for my DF. Now that i have 3 tech lenses which i consider a full kit than my personal shootingI will be leaving the DF home and just go out with my tech cam like many of us do these days.
BTW the bolt that comes with the flip lock you can use but it is metric which is fine to use but if you go with a standard 1/4 inch thread you can use other types of quick releases a lot easier to mount. Reason why i switched it to 1/4 inch. I will shoot a image of the final look here in a minute