I am no engineer but I would have thought that maximum mechanical stiffness
would be
achived when each foot was equidistant from the other two and that
distance was the same as the length of a leg.
Giles
Tim Breen wrote:
> I took a class from Joe MacDonald (top caliber nature shooter) and he did
> three things to obtain his razor sharp telephoto images:
>
> (1) splay the tripod legs and get the unit as close to the ground as is
> possible.
>
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