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Float even your longest telephoto lenses with this liberating tripod head.
If you've never tried a gimbal head with a tripod when photographing wildlife, you really must give it a shot. The freedom of movement a gimbal offers can be pretty exhilarating stuff. Even the most fluid of ball heads can't compare.
I had just such a revelation recently while using Induro's new CH B2 Gimbal head with an Induro carbon fiber tripod to photograph red-tailed hawks along the Hudson River. As the hawks soared and swooped over the Hudson, I was able to track them easily with the Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 VR Il lens I was also testing (see page 84) thanks to the free-flowing Induro gimbal mount.
Gimbal heads are, of course, nothing new. A Virginia-based company called Wimberly has been making them since the early Nineties and, truth be told, the Induro device I tried out bore a striking resemblance to those models. But no matter. When it ain't broke, don't fix It, I suppose.
What also hasn't changed much with these latest gimbals from Induro is the high price. The GHB2, which...