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Recommended Travel Friendly Macro Tripod

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maggiemole Senior Member • Posts: 1,987
Re: Recommended Travel Friendly Macro Tripod

BBbuilder467 wrote:

maggiemole wrote:

EarthMurmurs wrote:

I am an avid fungi photographer. My goal is to take shots as close to ground level as possible, to show a perspective unseen by humans who tower over these small, fascinating organisms.

To achieve this, I have a tripod with the centre column inverted, which allows my camera to be at ground level, and very stable to set up 10-20 shots on manual focus, which are then stacked when I get home.

This does mean operating the camera upside down, which takes some learning. Fortunately my camera has tilting display, so I do my focusing and metering from the screen.

What make is your tripod? I have a heavy Hama Traveller Compact Pro which allows me to invert the centre column, but the head is large and fixed and gets in the way of the tilt screen on the camera from my viewpoint. Something lighter and perhaps with a detachable head would be better for me.

thanks

With a ball-head, it shouldn't matter whether it's right side up or upside down.

With a little travel tripod, you might not have to reverse the column. Just invert the legs. I don't know why the ball-head would get in the way.

You're right, BB. It took me some time to work out that I needed to mount the camera at 180 degrees to the normal position on the head. Now the attachment controls (if that's what they are called) no longer get in the way of the view of the tilted screen, at the small inconvenience of awkwardness in releasing the camera at the end of the session. Thank you!

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