Help me find a tripod mount for 4 se

Alien_Enthusiast:
Which Manfrotto model would you reccomend? At 1325mm it would be nice to have some handle for precise pointing.

Alien_Enthusiast:
Also, as for motorized ones, are there any cheap alterantives to DJI RS 4 Pro? Motorized ones sounds nice, only if it wasnt so expensive.

V:
I used the 4SE for aviation for a long time, infact I put my 8HD on the 4SE mount, and it worked just fine.  Just set slew to speed 9 and time your shots in an intercept window, speed 9 is fast enough to track any aircraft close to the ground at slower speeds- the only problematic aircraft you'll find are your fighters, as long as their either low and slow, or high and fast, you'll be fine, mid altitude and fast is where it gets tricky.



UPS 767 at about 35,000 ft, 25-40 mi away (betting on the closer end) through the Edge HD 8 a few years ago, slightly out of focus (you can tell by the donut reflections on the engine intakes

Your biggest issue you will find is focus. The 4SE is very soft focused for terrestrial targets, so use some kind of peaking setting to get focus. My biggest issue using it as a lense is that the focus with planes is dynamic, and so even setting focus on something far away results in a blurry image. you have to pre-set focus based on distance, and over time you'll get better and better at pre-setting it as an aircraft approaches.

You've reawakened this for me and I think I'm going to go out and try it again. Thanks!

Alien_Enthusiast:

V:
I used the 4SE for aviation for a long time, infact I put my 8HD on the 4SE mount, and it worked just fine.  Just set slew to speed 9 and time your shots in an intercept window, speed 9 is fast enough to track any aircraft close to the ground at slower speeds- the only problematic aircraft you'll find are your fighters, as long as their either low and slow, or high and fast, you'll be fine, mid altitude and fast is where it gets tricky.



UPS 767 at about 35,000 ft, 25-40 mi away (betting on the closer end) through the Edge HD 8 a few years ago, slightly out of focus (you can tell by the donut reflections on the engine intakes

Your biggest issue you will find is focus. The 4SE is very soft focused for terrestrial targets, so use some kind of peaking setting to get focus. My biggest issue using it as a lense is that the focus with planes is dynamic, and so even setting focus on something far away results in a blurry image. you have to pre-set focus based on distance, and over time you'll get better and better at pre-setting it as an aircraft approaches.

You've reawakened this for me and I think I'm going to go out and try it again. Thanks!

Very cool! How doable is it to manually track aircraft?