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Geared Head Axis Direction - Advice Needed!


Chris Stiles

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Hi All, 

I am just beginning to train on the wheels (Alpha wheels + Ronin 2) but before I start engraining muscle memory, I wanted to know what direction each axis should be set to. I don't want to train with settings that wouldn't match an Arri or Worrall geared head....unless those can easily be inverted? What feels natural to me is to invert both axes to the following:

Left Wheel (Pan): CCW = Pan Left, CW = Pan Right

Right Wheel (Tilt): CCW = Up, CW = Down

If these directions will get me in trouble, stop me while I'm ahead!

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Just working from muscle memory here, and it's been some time since I did wheels, but I seem to remember exactly the opposite:

 Left-hand wheel == Pan, CW looking at wheel == pan left

Right-hand wheel == Tilt, CW looking at wheel == tilt up

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