
This weekend I purchased a new tripod, which was a joyful event for me. I already have a lot of tripods:
- One with a missing mounting plate because the plate was attached to the bottom of my old Canon that I 'lost' in France in 2002 after drinking ten pints of Exceedingly Strong Lager
- One spindly legged and very wobbly tripod that it's mandatory to be given for free when you spend lots of money on new cameras in the Wan Chai computer store
- A Benro tripod that's slightly less spindly than the free tripod, with a ball head, which is jolly nice, but with a rather awkward quick release plate that seems to require you to push much too hard on the body of your camera when you're trying to mount it
- A minature tripod for a very small camera, that falls over when I put even my compact camera on it.