Your choice of tripod for 360 product photography
Posted On September 28 In Photo Tripods
Unlike still photography regularly, 360 product photography requires extra attention choosing a tripod and tripod head. Yes, it has to be strong enough to support your camera and lens, but there is a little more for photographing products rotate in 360 degrees. Let’s start with a tripod…
Something important on the tripod is that you don’t have to move so far in the study. Quite opposite, is essential for the tripod to stay fixed precisely on the spot while he shoots a lot of products. Information is a key here, even a slight touch can change the alignment of the center of the turntable camera pretty much ruined his photography and lose much time. So if your tripod is heavy and can sit firmly in the soil – it is good with the 360 product photography!
Another point to consider is how easy it is to change the height of the tripod without tilting the camera as often it must adjust the height of the camera to accommodate products of various dimensions. Camera should conform carefully with the turntable to ensure that they are sitting on two parallel planes that products not wobble up and down into final images. So tilting the camera during height adjustment will require used with the table is also a rather slow operation. The problem here is that tripods in the market have telescopic legs which have only 2 or 3 fixed positions. Only these fixed positions can be reliably used to change the height of their tripod without altering the tilt of the camera. Your best bet here is to have more sections telescopic leg tripod and a center column workshop (one that can slide up and down without adjusting the legs).
There are also couple of rarities with the tripod head. On the one hand does not need a ball head that there are only two types of movement of the head when align camera for photography product 360 – camera pan and tilt (tilt toward a product). For this reason, a 2-way pan / tilt head is the best. Secondly, the panoramic control should be as brief as possible allow quick access to the camera controls without risking to move the camera which is quite possible to use those heads of hybrid tripod for photography and video with the most points of control of the panoramic.
Happy 360 photography product!
