Showing posts with label equipment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equipment. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Tripods

A family of three legged things

This weekend I purchased a new tripod, which was a joyful event for me.  I already have a lot of tripods:
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. A minature tripod for a very small camera, that falls over when I put even my compact camera on it.