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Editor’s letter The stable staple
©PaulMitchell
I’ve just had a few days’ holiday in the Lake District doing what I love – taking pictures. Autumn had just arrived so there were plenty of trees that hadn’t turned, but no matter; I was out each day armed with my camera and, most importantly, a decent, stable tripod. It never fails to amaze me how little many photographers spend on a tripod, but also how few you see out and about. Over the years – and I don’t have any figures to back this up – surely enough tripods have been sold for every man, woman and child in the UK. But how many do you see in actual use? Remarkably few, unless it is in the Lakes in autumn when the show put on by Mother Nature can be truly spectacular, and everywhere I went I bumped into photographersmaking themost of theweather. I know I’m going to sound like a tripod snob here, but I am going to say it anyway: I saw so many poor tripods, ones that should have been skipped ages ago or, better still, left on the shop’s shelf. Of all the accessories that can improve your pictures, it’s the tripod that offers the most potential benefit, ensuring you get the sharpest results from your expensive lenses and, of course, it allows total freedom with aperture choice. That’s the theory, at least. What shoots the theory down is that many photographers have tripods that can’t give the required stability for the kit they are using and are poorly designed, which actually makes using them a genuine displeasure. A pointless waste of time andmoney. The thing is, if you’ve invested hard-earned cash on first-rate lenses to use with your
high resolution cameras, skimping on support is futile, because it obviates your investment in quality kit. You need a tripod that is stable enough to hold the heaviest camera/lens combination you own in a modest breeze. But it needs to be light enough to carry around, as there is no point in having a very stable tripod that is so heavy it gets left in the car boot. The design should mean that the legs lock solidly and the head holds the camera securely in position once tightened, as well as using a decent, quick-release system. It’s not much to ask, and there are plenty of great tripods of all sizes and price levels that deliver the required support. But there is a lot of poor kit out there, too. I mostly use a compact, travel-style tripod that’s made from carbon-fibre, which keeps weight down. It copes easily with a full-frame DSLR even with a telezoom fitted, unless there is a serious wind blowing. The thing is, I do understand why tripods are not a high priority for many because they only get an outing once a year. But if that experience is a bad one and the quality of the results disappointing, the user isn’t going to spend more on a better model because they don’t see the point. Make the leap of faith, though, and a fulfilling experience and better pictures will be yours for the taking.
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