I recently attended a Workshop where several people were shooting Large Format, and was surprised that most seemed to be using ball heads on their tripods. A peek through the "Show me your LF camera" thread shows that is seems to be the preferred system -- again a surprise.
I've never been able to successfully use a ball head with any view camera. 35mm and digitals, yes; Rolleis, yes; even Speed Graphics so long as I'm using the viewfinder but not if I'm using the ground glass to focus and compose.
Anybody care to comment?
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