When I use a tripod ...

[Keith]

... I feel like a real photographer! 😀

I've just bought one of those carbon fibre Sirui travel tripods (T-025) and I have to say for the couple of hundred dollars it cost me I'm stunned at the quality! 😱

Absolutely perfect for the little DPM and I'd imagine that at a stretch it would support a fair bit larger camera if need be. Highly recommended! 🙂

 

[back alley]

i have the same tripod!

now i just have to act like a real photogapher and use it!!

 

[back alley]

i wonder how many of us actually use a tripod on a regular basis?

i have to admit that it doesn't add to my feeling like a photographer much at all...but that's because i fancy myself an urban street shooter and need to be walking and at the ready most of the time.

 

[Keith]

i wonder how many of us actually use a tripod on a regular basis?

i have to admit that it doesn't add to my feeling like a photographer much at all...but that's because i fancy myself an urban street shooter and need to be walking and at the ready most of the time.

Whereas I'm a very premeditative structured individual photographically and a tripod really suits my style. It's probably why I've never really warmed to RF cameras ... although I do still use one occasionally!

 

[Keith]

Not to mention ... tripods seem to bring out the fondler in me, probably because of my engineering/mechanical background I guess!

I love the way they're made ... such precision! 😀

 

[Pablito]

real photographers don't need no stinkin' tripods! 😀

 

[c.poulton]

I own three tripods - one full and two table top and have only used the table top once!

I like the idea of using a tripod, especially with medium format but I find my shooting style tends to be very fluid and quick - I mainly shoot street in any case, but even when I try my hand at architecture or landscape I shoot handheld.

 

[Godfrey]

I have three tripods and they all get used when apropos for what I'm shooting.

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"My sharpest lens is a sturdy tripod."

 

[Avotius]

I have an early model Benro carbon fiber tripod with a nice velbon head. I love a good carbon tripod, they last really well. Just keep it out of the sea....I got sand into my leg tightening mechanism and it stripped one of the leg threads.

 

[Sparrow]

... my name is Stewart, and I like tripods ... I have not bought a new one for five months now.

 

[Peter_Jones]

I've got 2 tripods - the main being an old Manfrotto 055/029 head. great for medium-format and me new (to me...) 5x4. Smaller cameras look a bit silly on it, but there's no lens sharper than a tripod 🙂

 

[StefanJozef]

I have one of those big benbo tripods and I hate it with a vengeance. I do use a tripod for landscape work, never (obviously) for street work.

 

[Rodchenko]

I love tripods, but very rarely use them.

 

[thegman]

My favourite types of photography involve tripods, but I don't use mine as much as I would like. I like landscapes, and often, I think the sky looks best around dusk, so it's very unlikely I can hand hold a camera at the low shutter speed that entails.

 

[haempe]

I have not found a pleasant tripod in my price range yet, but I discovered the use of a monopod for indoor MF work lately - it serves the IQ and the well-being of my backbone... 🙂

 

[icebear]

I love tripods, but very rarely use them.

Same here, last time I put it in the car but ended up walking around leaving it there and leaning against a wall, a lamp post or whatever.

2/90 handheld, 1/30s :

 

[KevinS]

99% of my film photos were taken using a tripod and small lens openings (landscapes). Using an "Automatic" Bogen I'm able to move quickly between shots when the conditions are fleeting. The legs drop with gravity and unlock with levers near the head so closing up can be almost instant. More rushed shots done w/o a tripod are never as good.

 

[nikon_sam]

I have four that I use regularly...one is strictly for the 4x5 camera...I prefer to use them as they slow me down and make me really think about what I'm shooting and the image quality is so much better...

 

[helen.HH]

Hmmmm, i'm now thinking this Might be a 'new' approach. 😱
A new way of ''seeing' for my Street photogrphy 🙄
Just Parking myself on some street ... Tripod & DPMerrill
watching & waiting to Click & Capture

 

[ricnak]

Helen.

A reality check. Will the tripod fit in your purse/ handbag.

The other helen