My main hobby is photography, and one of my lenses begs for a gimbal style tripod head, so that when mounted, the lens and camera are more or less balanced, instead of being very top-heavy and unstable as when using a normal pan/tilt head. (Ball heads are even less stable, and even big ones get spoilt when clamped hard enough to hold heavy gear.)
I've been wondering whether anyone has made their own using, say, 1/2" or
3/4" square section brass tube, or wood even?. For a single lens, I think the static part of the design could be hexagonal, with a smaller bottom "half a hexagon" supporting the lens on bearings . Haven't done any weight calculations yet, but I guess something like the ASCII art below might work. _________ / \ / \ l l [] [] l \ / l \ \_______/ / \_________/Any comments orf suggestions? Many thanks.