📷 Enhance Your Monopod Experience with the Oben VH-R2 Tilt Head Review

Use this tilt head on Canon 500 monopod holding Canon 6D with 100-400 lens. It works well, of course it's new and tight. We'll see in time. A much improved method compared to the light ball that monopod is equipped with. This is a win for me.

I am very satisfied with the build quality of this pan head. It easily attaches to my monopod and gives me the support I've been looking for in a heavy lens. The quick release gives me the ability to detach the monopod from the lens when handheld shooting is preferred and not supported.

This is a very solid tilt head, but note that you can only tilt or rotate, not both. No head issues really, but I will always insist that the locking lever is fully locked. It's a very quick way to lock your gear, but it never gave me the 100% confidence that a regular lock button would.

This monopod head is said to hold 11 lbs, well I guess it does if you mean your lens doesn't actually fall off but it does slip and wobble no matter how good I have it tightened. I have a 120-400mm Sigma lens that weighs 4 pounds, which is a lot less than the head's intended capacity. Useless for this lens. I can only use it with my Sigma 28-300mm so the buyer should be warned.

I use this on a Sirui P-306 monopod so I can tilt the camera up and down to add versatility to the monopod which works very well. It's well built and solid, heavier than I'd like, but has features I thought I needed like a quick release plate with locking lever. When the plate is placed normally on the camera it actually tilts side to side so I have to rotate the plate 90° to make it tilt up and down but in this case everything works fine. I felt the ball head would be too flexible on a…

I also have a Manfrotto 234RC. There isn't much of a difference in build quality between them. They're both pretty solid and I'm not afraid to entrust them with my camera with a 400mm f/5.6 lens - I use it to attach my camera to my telescope mount. I prefer the safety pin on the top to the chunky safety pin on the Manfrotto. Also, the Manfrotto's quick-release mechanism seems to be wearing out (it needs to be squeezed a bit over time to get a firm grip). Because of this, the cheaper price and…

I've used ball and pan heads on my monopod but this is my first pan head and it works great. It supports my heavy 600mm lens, which I can now move up or down while watching ice hockey and field sports (soccer, soccer, field hockey, etc.) without having to awkwardly tilt the monopod. That doesn't seem like a big deal, but it makes it much smoother to follow the action than if the lens were attached to a standard monopod screw mount. And unlike the ball and pan heads I've tried, this pan head…