Question about markins Q-20

For the owners of this ballhead out there, I was wondering if your vertical drop notch was at 90 degrees from horizontal. I did purchase a RRS L-plate so it won't really matter, but I was wondering why my drop notch didn't settle at 90 degrees, but more like 93-95 degrees. Wouldn't it be inconvenient for someone to use that drop notch for vertical photography if they didn't have an L-Plate? Perhaps there is a reason for it that I don't see so please enlighten me.

FWIW I have never used the "drop notch" on my Markin Q3T for anything other than angling down low. An L plate is really the only way to go as it keeps the center of the sensor at the same position, whereas using a "drop notch" offsets it.

Yeah that's the reason I got the L-Plate, but I was just wondering why they wouldn't just make the drop notch parallel with the ground lol.

I can get 90 degrees from my M10. And I don't have an L plate, so for lenses without a tripod collar I use it regularly.

TuanTime wrote in post #11218206
Yeah that's the reason I got the L-Plate, but I was just wondering why they wouldn't just make the drop notch parallel with the ground lol.

Because you might not want to (or be able to) level up the tripod, so giving you a little more room to play with lets you compensate for the tripod not being perfectly vertical.