How much weight can the Ultimate Ballhead hold?
Many manufactures of ball heads rate their products in very unreal ways. Just because you can set a very large weight straight down on a ball head, that doesn’t mean that the ball head is able to secure that weight firmly in any position. The Acratech Ultimate Ball Head will hold more weight more securely than ball heads rated to hold many times more. The Ultimate Ball Head has been designed to hold 35mm, medium format and smaller large format cameras securely in any position, and has been tested to hold 25 lbs in any position. Although with very heavy cameras over 15 lbs (even the big Mamiya RZ 67 with a 500mm lens only weighs about 10 lbs.) we don’t recommend using any type of ball head, it is much safer to use a geared or Wimberly head.
