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Recommended Travel Friendly Macro Tripod

Started 5 months ago | Questions thread
EarthMurmurs Regular Member • Posts: 475
Re: Recommended Travel Friendly Macro Tripod

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

Hi Maggie - the tripod I use for inverted shooting is an Inca i5315, and I replaced the stock head with a cheap, compact Neewer ball head. I chose this head because it doesn't have a panning arm to get in the way.

I've seen this tripod on FB marketplace from time to time for around $20 (used) and the ball head was also around $20 (new)

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