Pan head
AssigneeNihon Velbon Seiko Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKouichiro Nakatani
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Abstract
A panhead (11) has a base body (20), a tilting body (21), and a camera mount (41). The base body (20) is adapted to be connected to a leg system 12. The tilting body (21) can be adjustably rotated around a rotation center axis (X) that horizontally extends in the lateral direction. The camera mount (41) can be adjustably rotated around a rotation center axis (A) that horizontally extends in the fore-and-aft direction and coincides with the axial direction of a side-tilting shaft. The rotation center axis (A) of the camera mount (41) approximately coincides with a lateral-dimension-bisecting line (B) of the base body (20) as viewed from the top. The side-tilting shaft is disposed approximately below a camera fixing screw (59) of the camera mount (41).
Claims5
A panhead including:
- a camera mount provided with a camera fixing screw on the top thereof, and
- a side-tilting shaft disposed approximately below said camera fixing screw of the camera mount, wherein:
- the camera mount is supported by the side-tilting shaft so that the camera mount can be set at either the left-side tilting position, where the top of the camera mount faces leftward, or the right-side tilting position, where the top of the camera mount faces rightward, by being adjustably rotated around the side-tilting shaft.
A panhead including:
- a base body to be connected to a leg system;
- a rotational body which is provided as a part of the base body and can be adjustably rotated around a horizontal rotation center axis extending in the lateral direction;
- a side-tilting shaft which is provided as a part of said rotational body and adapted to rotate in an integral body with said rotational body, and
- a camera mount which has a camera fixing screw at the top thereof and is attached to the side-tilting shaft so as to be adjustably rotated around a rotational center axis that horizontally extends in the fore-and-aft direction and coincides with the axial direction of the side-tilting shaft;
- wherein:
- said camera mount is arranged such that its rotation center axis mentioned above is located on or close to a vertical surface that passes the center of the lateral length of said base body and that the camera mount can be set at the left-side tilting position, where the top of the camera mount faces leftward, or the fight-side tilting position, where the top of the camera mount faces rightward, by being adjustably rotated;
- and
- said side-tilting shaft is disposed approximately below the camera fixing screw of the camera mount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.