Gitzo GH2781TQR Traveler Series 2 Quick Release Center Ball Head Get Gitzo GH2781TQR Price / Buy Online

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With the new generation of center ball heads launched during 2008, Gitzo brought into the market an entirely new approach in terms of design, performance and technology. Starting from these new standards, Gitzo developed a "simplified" center ball head, specifically conceived for traveling. The new series 2 Traveler center ball head combines light weight and compactness with a lot of the innovative features of the top of the range heads.

The ball is the revolutionary Gitzo patent-pending "Bubble Ball" PTFE treated, mounted on PTFE bushings. This beautiful sphere achieves both a dramatic weight reduction and exceptionally smooth operation. The locking system is the Gitzo unique and patent-pending Spring Assisted Double Lock (SADL) that combines two locking systems in one, maximizing both locking power and operating smoothness. Thanks to this revolutionary system, the Traveler head guarantees a safe lock up to 13.2 pounds measured accordingly to Gitzo standard (33 pounds if measured according to Gitzo's competitors' standard).

The head body is made of cast magnesium and it is designed, like all Gitzo latest development products, with advanced 3D modeling software to achieve the maximum structural strength with the minimum weight. The head features a leveling spirit level inserted in the ball stem, plus three additional spirit levels in order to always guarantee perfectly leveled images. The quick release also includes a new lever-operated quick-release plate locking system and the traditional double safety system. Traveler heads come with a smart Gitzo display cleaner and convenient anti-dust bag for storage and packing.

Gitzo GH2781TQR Traveler Series 2 Quick Release Center Ball Head Key Features

Beautifully engineered, the new Traveler heads guarantee cutting-edge performances and a phenomenal smooth and precise operation.

Gitzo Bubble Ball

The Gitzo Bubble Ball comes from an exclusive technology that enables Gitzo to produce high-quality, perfectly round hollow spheres with a ultra thin wall, for an incredible weight reduction. The Gitzo Bubble Ball not only guarantees a dramatic weight reduction, but it also allows Gitzo to increase the size of the ball for each series, with great improvements in locking performance and in the smoothness of movement. The Gitzo Bubble Ball also features an improved PTFE treatment that further reduces the surface micro roughness for the ultimate shooting experience and accuracy.

PTFE Low Friction Treatment Eliminates Jarring and Skipping

PTFE is a special treatment that generates a unique ultra-smooth surface and dramatically reduces friction between moving parts. This treatment bonds strongly with metal surfaces and ensures long-lasting performance. PTFE is one of the lowest-friction materials known to science, with the same friction coefficient as melting ice. On the GH2781TQR ball head, the ball sits on PTFE bushings for smooth, precise and fine movements.

SADL (Spring Assisted Double Lock)

The Gitzo GH2781TQR Magnesium Center Ball Head features a mechanical system called SADL (Spring Assisted Double Lock) that for the first time maximizes both locking power and smoothness of movement thanks to a completely new concept. This unique and patent pending system combines two locking systems in one. When the head needs to be fully locked, the sphere is compressed by a high friction metal to achieve a high efficiency lock. In all intermediate positions the sphere works on PTFE bushings that maximize smoothness and control. The PTFE bushing is controlled by a pre-loaded spring. The efficiency of the system is further increased by the ultra wide locking pads that exist on the largest diameter of the sphere, thus ensuring a much higher max payload for given ball diameter.

New Leveling Bubble System

The levelling bubble helps you to get your photographs, film or scope viewing perfectly horizontal or vertical. Gitzo's production staff set all levelling bubbles by hand in order to ensure 100% accurate level indication. The GH2781TQR Center Ball Head features a unique advanced system of leveling bubbles. This system allows the user to precisely control the leveling of shots in any position and conditions, in both portrait and horizontal position, with both short and long lenses. The head features four leveling bubbles, three on the quick release plate and one in a new exclusive position, in the ball stem. This innovative bubble in the ball stem is specifically designed to assist you in controlling the horizon in portrait position. The other three bubbles on the plate ensure that you always have one bubble in front of you and one bubble on the side for both horizontal and portrait leveling accuracy, no matter if the plate is used longitudinally or at 90 degrees to your shooting axis.

Improved Quick Release System

The new Gitzo ball heads introduce a new generation of quick release systems. The GH2781TQR features a new lever locking system for improved safety and compactness. The tension of the locking lever can be adjusted according to the plate used by means of a small knob. The locking tension should be adjusted in order to keep the lever completely folded in the rest position when closed. Gitzo quick releases feature a double safety system that prevents the equipment from dropping out of the head when the plate is released.

Double Quick Release Safety System

The system consists of two pins, one fixed and one manually operated by means of a button, that prevent camera equipment from suddenly dropping out of the head when the quick release locking knob is released. Extremely useful with heavy equipment, long lenses and spotting scopes.

Safe Grip

Safe Grip is a material that gives a safer lock between your camera and the head plate, preventing the camera from moving or slipping. It is used on quick release plates and in applications where the camera equipment is screwed to the support to reduce pivoting and twisting.

Separate Pan Control

When using a ball head, the ability to lock and unlock the panoramic movement independent of front-back or lateral tilt movements is convenient for panoramic photography and when a high level of control is required.

Magnesium Construction

In 1996 Gitzo was the first to use Magnesium in camera supports. Magnesium comes in different grades and Gitzo only uses material of the highest grade quality. Mainly used for heads, magnesium offers significant weight savings being 30% lighter than aluminum.

Gitzo GH2781TQR Traveler Series 2 Quick Release Center Ball Head Specifications

Series

2

Head Type

center ball

Pan

360 degrees

Tilt

+100 degrees / -30 degrees

Pan Locking

Yes

Ball Locking

Yes

Friction Control

No

Head Height

4.5 inches (11.4 cm)

Plate Type

quick release with 1/4-inch screw

Maximum Load Capacity

15.4 pounds (7 kg)

Maximum Load Capacity (Competitors' Standard)*

38.6 pounds (17.5 kg)

Weight

14.5 ounces (0.41 kg)

* The higher payload is measured accordingly to Gitzo's competitors' standard, directly on the head attachment screw. This method leads to a maximum payload 2.5 times higher than the Gitzo standard. Gitzo's standard is more severe and uses a 4.7-inch lever to simulate equipment center of gravity.

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