Bogen also offers a leveling section, but it is heavy and
klunky in operation. I gave up on "bowls" for leveling, and
returned to leg-leveling, since keeping one axis level while
changing another was relatively more difficult with the
bowl system (never did find a bubble level I could trust,
or see well enough...). Gee, as I write this, I begin to
think it might be a good idea to return the double-tilt
head [with arms removed and replaced with wing nuts] to
the legs for leveling...;-)
If you want to use one of the better fluid heads, though,
you do need the bowl adapter in order to mount the head...

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:28:04 -0700, "Mike Rehmus" wrote:

>Good to know. They should work for other brands of tripod then, right?
>
>"Dirk J. Bakker" wrote in message
>news:3CBD1050.50109@mindspring.com...
>> Mike Rehmus wrote:
>>
>> >Most Gizo tripod heads unscrew and you can screw on a video head. I've
>done
>> >this with a number of tripods from different manufacturers.
>> >
>> >Only downside is that still-camera tripods don't have bowls if you want
>to
>> >go 'high-end support. Means you have to level the tripod, not the head.
>> >
>>
>> Gitzo provides bowl adaptors in 75mm and 100mm sizes, one that mounts on
>> flat plate tripod and a levelling base, if you want that functionality:
>>
>> http://www.gitzo.com/
>>
>> Look under Products > video > video accessories (bottom of page).