MoveShotMove Nomad Review 

I completely forgot to mention the set screw in the base plate as well, which adds another layer of anti-slip to the setup. So your V-plate (or ballhead or whatever) won't slip on the mounting plate anymore either. I had so much loctite on the MSM it was nuts, and it still fought me.

It has an arca plate attached to the bottom of it, so any reasonably sturdy regular camera tripod that has a head that uses the arca system will work just fine. Some people go the extra bit and get a geared head to make alignment easier.

Wish I did but its just extra space so I just use my regular ballheads. Though I find myself a lot of times setting the tripod up with 1 leg facing north, getting the alignment close enough and then using the north facing leg to fine tune up/down. Granted, I wasn't keeping all of them, maybe half at best, but it was one of those things that I wanted to test as I really like my 5 min exposures so I don't have to crank the ISO and lose all those steps of dynamic range.

Completely understandable, I was in the same boat, but when I saw they had addressed practically every issue I had with the MSM I decided to give them another chance. The set screw in the baseplate as well as the geared no-slip attachment were good fixes to my biggest pain points.

It helps keep condensation from settling on the lens when it gets closer to the dew point. It also helps keep the random lights from hitting the front element and messing up the exposure.

Yeah, gotta watch that transferred energy into the tripod. When I first started using the MSM and my Star Adventurer, I had the tripods as tall as they could be and I could zoom in on the screen and just watch the stars bounce around if I thought about breathing too closely to the unit. I spent a lot of time changing the setups around trying to minimize the shake. Bldgs are the worst, anything in the bldg moves, door closes, someone walks on the floor, the wind hits the wall, and the whole thing moves just enough. The annular eclipse in Oct I forgot how bad that was and ended up setting up my camera on the top of a parking garage :( I could see when a bus was driving by on the road next to the garage by how much the sun was bouncing around on the screen.

The Nomad would be perfect for that setup. That's all you need to get started and its still a great setup for wide angle Milky Way. It's how I got started at least, started with wide angle on the MSM, then started throwing longer lenses at more expensive trackers til I plateaued where I'm at currently.

You mean not having the slower speeds available on the tracker? I have been happier with the timelapses I've done at 1/2 speed compared to the ones I've done tracking at normal speed, just because you get more than just the 1 part of the sky. As for doing timelapses in camera, that can be tricky. I know my camera has both required options available, but the kicker is that I can't use them both at the same time. So I just use a intervalometer instead, gives me a lot more reliable control.

It seemed to work pretty well when I tested it, you can see the test images in the video. Unfortunately, Ohio being Ohio, I haven't had a chance to use it since. Still trying to figure out how to get it usable with the lens hood on my telephoto.

Its on MoveShootMove's website, www.moveshootmove.com/collections/move-shoot-move-rotator/products/pre-order-star-focus-filter

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