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The Gitzo GH1780QR Magnesium Center Ball Head replaces Gitzo's G1178M Center Ball Head. The GH1780QR supports cameras up to 22 pounds. Gitzo magnesium center ball heads are renowned for their smooth and precise movements and high quality manufacturing. PTFE is applied to the ball and blocking pads to eliminate all traces of jarring and skipping. The result is highly accurate positioning adjustments, even with long tele lenses. The Gitzo GH1780QR center ball head features a revolutionary material for quick release plates that replaces traditional cork plates. Safe Grip, a high grip material, holds your equipment safely and prevents it from moving or slipping.

Gitzo is renowned for its state-of-the art range of high-performance tripods. Gitzo's innovative range of center ball heads is engineered to be the perfect match to their tripods. These heads are designed to deliver the perfect balance of high max load, smoothness, minimized drift angle, lightweight design, low center of gravity, greater tilt angles, compactness, ergonomics and safety. This is achieved through numerous Gitzo exclusive technical solutions, such as the hollow Bubble Ball, the Spring Assisted Double Lock (SADL) and new leveling system. The Bubble Ball allows for an impressive weight reduction while providing these heads the best weight to max load ratio in the market. The revolutionary SADL system combined to the PTFE treated Bubble Ball guarantees both an exceptional locking power and ultra smooth high precision movement.

Gitzo GH1780QR Series 1 Magnesium Center Ball Head Key Features

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 GH1780QR ball head, the ball sits on PTFE bushings for smooth, precise and fine movements.

SADL (Spring Assisted Double Lock)

The Gitzo GH1780QR 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 GH1780QR 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 center ball heads introduce a new generation of quick release systems. The GH1780QR 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 GH1780QR Series 1 Magnesium Center Ball Head Specifications

Series

1

Head Type

center ball

Pan

360 degrees

Tilt

+95 degrees / -13 degrees

Pan Locking

Yes

Ball Locking

Yes

Friction Control

No

Head Height

3.74 inches (9.5 cm)

Plate Type

quick release with 1/4-inch screw

Maximum Load Capacity

22.05 pounds (10 kg)

Maximum Load Capacity (Competitors' Standard)*

55.1 pounds (25 kg)

Weight

12.35 ounces (0.35 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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