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Sheikh
April 24th, 2009, 17:48
Will the Manfrotto 718B Digi tripod accept Manfrotto ball heads?

Cheers,

Martin
Oxygen Thief
April 24th, 2009, 18:19
Why would you want it to ?
Sheikh
April 24th, 2009, 19:07
Why would you want it to ?

I'm wanting to use my 718B on Sunday, but the head won't have arrived from Johnsons Photopia by then.
Oxygen Thief
April 24th, 2009, 19:35
But the 718B comes with its own head ?
Sheikh
April 24th, 2009, 19:59
I don't have the head, that's why I'm asking!
coyote
April 24th, 2009, 20:11
"unlike most Manfrotto models, this tripod is pre-fitted with an unremovable head" sure you have a 718B?
BigDex
April 24th, 2009, 20:42
I think what Sheikh could also do to know is whether the quick-release plate from a Manfrotto ball head (486RC2) will fit onto his 718B?

TIA
Sheikh
April 24th, 2009, 20:50
sure you have a 718B?

The following is wriiten on leg 3: "Manfrotto 718B-2424 DIGI". Have just had a look at the Manfrotto diagrams, and I'm missing the camera plate and the part which connects the camera plate to the rest of the tripod. The head isn't interchangeable.
Oxygen Thief
April 24th, 2009, 22:22
The following is wriiten on leg 3: "Manfrotto 718B-2424 DIGI". Have just had a look at the Manfrotto diagrams, and I'm missing the camera plate and the part which connects the camera plate to the rest of the tripod. The head isn't interchangeable.

You bought it like that ?
Sheikh
April 25th, 2009, 10:23
You bought it like that ?

Yep, Curry's in Macclesfield sold it to me for a fiver because it was missing the camera plate and attachment.
Brick_Man
April 25th, 2009, 21:21
Got any pics?

the 718 comes with a head, that you cannot swap :(

If you could put an OK quality ball head on it, then it would be the perfect UE tripod. but unfortunatly you can't. not without a metalworkshop :S
BenCooper
April 25th, 2009, 22:45
Hmm, I smell a project coming up - the head on my 718 is beginning to annoy me, but the rest of it is brilliant for urbex - shouldn't be that hard to make an adapter to take a standard head...
Derelict-UK
April 26th, 2009, 12:38
if your just talking about the plate and not the head, the plate is pretty much unique to the manfrotto range.

I used to have it with my S3 Pro but when I upgraded camera the head won't take the weight. Shame as it was very small and light but could extend to head height!

If only they did a stronger version