Bogen has a tripod (two I think) whose legs splay completely flat-180' from
each other.
And it has the horizontal arm capability...It's the 30218PRO. I have
one-love it. It's as stable a platform for shooting low as possible.
On the other hand, I also have a Uniloc (same idea as Benbow) that's heavy
as a tank but with it's arm, I can angle out over plants, walls, etc to get
close to something higher. It's just soooo heavy.
Instead of a ball, I also use the Bogen 3265 Ball-Grip head. I found that
holds my Tamron 300 just fine. Since I'm composing with the grip instead of
holding the camera with motor drive on a ball, there is no dipping of the
image when you tighten down the ball. Try one out at a camera store-you
might like it.
Bob F
> This is why John Shaw in his Nature photography books recommends just a
> very few tripods, all with the feature in common that you can splay
> the legs
> wide and get the tripod head very close to soil level, camera right
> way up.
>
> I have the Olympus macro stage and rack, but after reading what Shaw,
> John
> Johns and others (including Gary Reese) have said about vibration, I
> try to
> get close to the subject with only the bare tripod+head if I can.
>
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