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After having two Manfrotto ballheads fail during a one week period, I personally will never have another. However, Manfrotto's panheads I've had good success. After the Manfrotto ballhead failures I replaced them with two Arca-Swiss ballheads (but both were way above your stated budget constraint).
My brother uses Giotto ballheads under his equipment (our MF cameras weigh more than 4"x5" LF cameras). Wish I had the model number, but as I recall he paid around $150-ish for it. He's been using them for about 3-years now and has not had any problems or complaints with them.
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