Many/most tripods are nominally designed to be small enough when
folded up to fit into a suitcase. The center column adds to the
collapsed height. So the tripods end up being somewhat shorter than
eye level. The heavier duty tripods may not have a center column
allowing each of the leg sections to be longer. Unfortunately they
don't seem to make a similar style in lighter weight tripods.
If you are standing around in a blind taking pictures of birds or
doing astrophotography with the camera pointed up most of the time the
height could be an issue. When I am walking around most of my time is
not spent looking through the viewfinder so a lower height isn't a
problem (I think I'm still 5'10" tall).
I seldom use the center column and replaced it with a short one so
that the tripod could get closer to ground level for macro shots.
-jeff
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Michael Collins <l43g20th@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm missing something here. Is the eye height guideline not realistic, or am
> I looking at the wrong list of tripods, or is centre column extension not
> really the issue it's made out to be, or...?
>
> Michael
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