All about tripods – or at least the more affordable
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The time has come recently so that you can buy a tripod (my Christmas gift of my wife). So I started the research online and quickly discovered that I don’t know squat about tripods. I knew that he wanted a strong and lightweight tripod. My dad was an aluminum leg, very cheap (under $40) tripod that I used for the past eight years. It worked, but was a little heavy and not the more sturdy tripod. Sometimes had key against my leg maintain agitation and forget to use it on the wind.
I learned that you can have a sturdy tripod, you can have a light tripod and can have tripod cheap, but can only have two-three with the “cheap” part first pass through the window. Scott Kelby and Joe McNally (two of the best photographers I) recommended the legs of Manfrotto carbon (about $375) and really Gloria Ball Head (which is what in the upper part that moves to turns to the camera) (another $350 +) for a total of more than $700. Well I don’t know about you, but is still out of my budget, so I had to go get some options, not quite as good, but much less expensive.
Firstly, we must look at when you need a tripod.
Need you when it is dark or in other low light situations.
Needed when your shutter speed is slower than one divided by the focal length of the lens (oh no, math – see examples below).
If you are going to enlarge your picture much needed in tripod.
The first issue comes when you need to capture bright opening and also needs a high ISO and slow shutter speed.
The second bullet describes the calculation of shutter speed as an example of a lens 50 mm standard requiring more than 1/60 without tripod and a telephoto lens 500 mm should be 1/500 or faster. The logic is that the lens extends the vibrations in the camera or how to celebrate.
The latest is that large expansions will bring to any small imperfections, including the movement of the camera in the great enlargement.
There are two types of tripod heads: ball heads and heads of bread. The head of the ball is simple and offers a wide range of camera shake. If we tend to shoot quickly or moving objects in it will be like a ball head. With heads of bread has several levers blockade which set the bread in different planes of movement that allows to move the camera on the tripod. Heads of bread are very useful for panoramic shots. The balance is the speed, more time is needed to unlock and adjust the levers that with a ball head.
The legs of the tripod is limited to aluminum or carbon fiber. Aluminum is strong enough, but in comparison with the strongest carbon fiber. Aluminum is more heavy and carbon fiber is more expensive.
I came to two options. I wanted a leg of carbon fibre and chose a head of bread. Because the cost is a factor, was my budget in the area of $150 to $220 (Joe and Scott sorry). I’d love to have one of the more than US $700 babies, but its just not in the cards until the lottery. First of all decided to reject the tripods of component where to buy the legs of a company and to the heads of others. I wanted an installation consisting of head leg.
My first choice was the Sunpak – Pro 523PX 64 “tripod sold on Amazon and Best Buy.” With a range of inch 64 “and plummeted to 12″. He weighed 4 pounds. The head of bread was controlled by a mechanism of pistol that seemed very slippery grip. It was sold for $199.
My other option was the Rocketfish 65 kit “of carbon fibre, reached up to 65.5″ and weighed 5.8 pounds Rocketfish is the property of Best Buy sells their tripods only. Listed at $150.00. It became a unit that was slightly lighter and more expensive. The other unit was very strong with a strong sense and levering inclined to allow smooth movement to both portrait and landscape modes.
Both units work for me and were within my budget. The Sunpak was one that seemed more robust mechanism very cool food and pistol grip. What sold was the sale of Christmas at Best Buy that food to less than $120. Well, sometimes you just buy the cheapest. These are not the only good and reasonable tripods in the market. I urge each of you to do your own research and learn from what has been read in Ezine articles.


