This little Benro Polaris tripod head is a special one of its kind. It’s an all-electric, smartphone-controllable tripod head for smaller cameras (no big cine rigs, please) that can also control the camera itself. Let’s take a look! A tripod head that can take control of your camera? Nice! But how do you control the head itself, you wonder? Oh, via one”s smartphone? Even better! And that’s what the Benro Polaris essentially is. Benro Polaris remote tripod head. Image credit: Benro A motorized two-axis tripod head that can be controlled manually or – via wifi or cellular – remotely with a smartphone. A camera mounted on the Benro Polaris can be controlled by the head itself, which is very useful for capturing images or even time-lapses remotely, for example. Benro Polaris tripod head The head itself is rated IPX6 (“splashproof”) and is made with aluminum alloy that should endure severe working environments. From the press release: driven by a high-efficiency power supply system with low consumption, Polaris ensures you an outdoor shooting experience that is both concise and reliable; The unique power-saving design further prolongs Polaris’s battery life for ultra-long outdoor shooting. Polaris sports GPS and a compass, so it’s easy to determine celestial paths and automatically adjust the camera angles to them. The same goes for sunsets and the like. Accompanying app. Image credit: Benro One nice thing about this Benro Polaris, at least for me, is that you can use it as a regular manual tripod head as...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 2 February, 2021