E-M5 tripod socket damage

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
texinwien
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Re: E-M5 tripod socket damage
In reply to Raven15, 7 months ago

Raven15 wrote:

circular scuff marks caused by screwing the camera on and off my tripod head (as I said I don't have a QR mechanism) ... maybe I should look into a QR plate just to avoid the circular scuff marks...

Yeah, seems to me that if you're spinning the camera around in order to screw it on / off the tripod, that would make it both more likely that you'd cross thread and also more likely that you'd not feel the fact that something was going wrong.

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