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Recommended Travel Friendly Macro Tripod

Started 5 months ago | Questions thread
maggiemole Senior Member • Posts: 1,987
Re: Shooting upside down? Use an "L" bracket.

Thanks for the reply, Bobby - I’ve looked at the videos and they are very clear and convincing about the benefits of an L-plate. And they all speak from the point of view of landscape photography, which is a bit different from ground-hugging mushrooms. However, I’m certainly not rejecting the brackets.

Here’s my tripod, and my problem. It’s a Hama Traveller compact pro, sturdy, heavy and with a reversible column and a fixed ballhead which cannot be replaced by anything with an Arca Swiss fitting. It’s why I began by accepting I need a new, lighter, smaller tripod. I get that bit.

But I have no idea about an appropriate ballhead to take an L-bracket the way you describe. A drop-in bracket? What kind of quick release plate? How does it all work to allow the camera to stay the right way up even when the column has placed it very close to the ground? I’m all at sea, as you can tell.

My camera is  Lumix GX9, mirrorless of course with a tilt screen. I assume a bracket like the Ellie Short would fit it, but if that’s wrong thinking, please tell me.  I’m very grateful for you taking the time to try to enlighten my darkness!

Maggie

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