Anyone Own a "Pod?"

I did a search for tripods for cameras with off-center mounts and found
a company named Semsons that sells a bean bag with an off-center
support for cameras with off-center mounts. If anyone knows a place
online where they make real tripods for cameras with off-center mounts,
I'd appreciate hearing.

N.B. All the digital photo zen masters on this group please spare
yourself the indignity of stooping to reply. This means I'd just like
to hear from camera owners who actually have dealt with off-center
tripod mounts.

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I did a search for tripods for cameras with off-center mounts and found
a company named Semsons that sells a bean bag with an off-center
support for cameras with off-center mounts. If anyone knows a place
online where they make real tripods for cameras with off-center mounts,
I'd appreciate hearing.

Well - I have tried some of the shorter pocket tripods, and that seems
to help with off center mounts. Even if they aren't perfectly
balanced, they don't usually topple over with the short legs. I also
bought this cheap pocket tripod with wire (think bendable desk lamps)
legs that I could bend in such a way to counteract the off-center
mount. I'd just make sure one/two of the legs were bent away from the
legs.

Of course a weighted down tripod will probably suffice. The large
majority of off-center mounts are in compact cameras.

I also use a monopod. Of course that forces me to hold onto the
camera so balancing it isn't really an issue.

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I did a search for tripods for cameras with off-center mounts and found
a company named Semsons that sells a bean bag with an off-center
support for cameras with off-center mounts. If anyone knows a place
online where they make real tripods for cameras with off-center mounts,
I'd appreciate hearing.

N.B. All the digital photo zen masters on this group please spare
yourself the indignity of stooping to reply. This means I'd just like
to hear from camera owners who actually have dealt with off-center
tripod mounts.


If you don't want any of the folk on this group who actually know what they
are talking about to respond, then so be it.

However you would then never get to know about the Giotto Sliding Camera
Mounting Plates.

You should be aware before you go and buy one, that you do need a suitable
tripod, complete with a head, to mount it upon.

Please don't come back and ask which size of screw fits your Camera Base
Plate.

Zen master Roy

"Roy G" wrote in message
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If you don't want any of the folk on this group who actually know what
they are talking about to respond, then so be it.

Zen master Roy


That would be a very small number of folks.

Doug Robbins wrote:
"Roy G" wrote in message
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If you don't want any of the folk on this group who actually know what
they are talking about to respond, then so be it.

Zen master Roy


That would be a very small number of folks.

Probably true. While I did film photography for many years, I feel like
a beginner all over again with a digital camera. Still, I see people
post things that are clearly inaccurate, so like every other Usenet
group, I have to be careful about acting on what I read.

On the original post: I have a cheap monopod from WalMart that's
sufficient for steadying my camera in most low light conditions. I've
also used immovable objects (tree, fence, telephone pole) to steady my
camera when I've left my monopod at home.
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Kill nothing but vandals...

On 18 Jan 2007 15:54:01 -0800, wrote:

I did a search for tripods for cameras with off-center mounts and found
a company named Semsons that sells a bean bag with an off-center
support for cameras with off-center mounts. If anyone knows a place
online where they make real tripods for cameras with off-center mounts,
I'd appreciate hearing.

I'm not understanding your problem.Every tripod I've seen lets you
tighten the mounting bolt so that the camera won't move, offset
mounting hole on the camera or not.
Is your camera/tripod not capable of this?

N.B. All the digital photo zen masters on this group please spare
yourself the indignity of stooping to reply. This means I'd just like
to hear from camera owners who actually have dealt with off-center
tripod mounts.

I'm not sure what you mean here.
I have an FX01, so I meet your requirements.
I often wonder about people who ask for help, then decide beforehand
who they will accept help from. Usually, IME, such people aren't
really willing to learn anything beyond their immediate needs.
Such people have empty refrigerators, if you take my meaning.

--
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a mansion in New Orleans
with Brad Pitt where they
say they will be very
involved locally. The
actress is nothing if not
meticulous. Whenever Angelina
Jolie orders in Chinese she's
very careful to specify boy or girl.

On 18 Jan 2007 15:54:01 -0800, wrote:

I did a search for tripods for cameras with off-center mounts and found
a company named Semsons that sells a bean bag with an off-center
support for cameras with off-center mounts. If anyone knows a place
online where they make real tripods for cameras with off-center mounts,
I'd appreciate hearing.

N.B. All the digital photo zen masters on this group please spare
yourself the indignity of stooping to reply. This means I'd just like
to hear from camera owners who actually have dealt with off-center
tripod mounts.

Until I got my 30D I normallyI used a Leica M3, which has an
off-center mount (it's as far from center as it can get and still fit
on the camera). I never had to do anything special to put it on a
tripod, just screwed it down and shot. When there was a problem it
was not because of the offset attachment, it was because the tripod
was a piece of crap that wouldn't hold a center mount steady either.

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"Bill Funk" wrote in message
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On 18 Jan 2007 15:54:01 -0800, wrote:

I did a search for tripods for cameras with off-center mounts and found
a company named Semsons that sells a bean bag with an off-center
support for cameras with off-center mounts. If anyone knows a place
online where they make real tripods for cameras with off-center mounts,
I'd appreciate hearing.

I'm not understanding your problem.Every tripod I've seen lets you
tighten the mounting bolt so that the camera won't move, offset
mounting hole on the camera or not.
Is your camera/tripod not capable of this?

N.B. All the digital photo zen masters on this group please spare
yourself the indignity of stooping to reply. This means I'd just like
to hear from camera owners who actually have dealt with off-center
tripod mounts.

I'm not sure what you mean here.
I have an FX01, so I meet your requirements.
I often wonder about people who ask for help, then decide beforehand
who they will accept help from. Usually, IME, such people aren't
really willing to learn anything beyond their immediate needs.
Such people have empty refrigerators, if you take my meaning.


Hi Bill

I think we, and all other semi intelligent, readers know that what he is
looking for is totally pointless.

My ancient Velbon has a platform that is 2.5 x 2.2 inches, and the screw
sits in a slot 1.5 inches long. I have used it complete with a Nikon FE and
200 f4 lens in the portrait format, without any slipping.

If that is incapable of holding any Canon P & S steady, no matter the
inclination of the head, or the position of the tripod socket, then I am as
complete a numpty as he is.

I suspect he has not read my response about Giotto Quick Release & Sliding
Mounts, I've probably been KFd.

I rather like the description of Zen Master, but feel it is a bit above my
true position.

Roy G

On Jan 19, 2:29 pm, J. Clarke wrote:

When there was a problem it
was not because of the offset attachment, it was because the tripod
was a piece of crap that wouldn't hold a center mount steady either.

Really? That makes me feel better. (Lucky you, to get a 30D.)

The Canon tech support guy said he and a colleague couldn't figure out
why Canon chose to put the mount in the corner, and he also mentioned a
Leica.

I did an Amazon search and found several sliding mount attachments, but
how do you know if your mount takes a 1/4 screw or a 3/8? Is the
measurement the width of the "hole" in the camera base or something
else? I measured my A710's tripod mount and didn't come up with
exactly 1/4 or 3/8.

Finally, what's the difference between a Hogen (sp?) and a Giotto?
Thanks.

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On Jan 19, 2:29 pm, J. Clarke wrote:

how do you know if your mount takes a 1/4 screw or a 3/8? Is the
measurement the width of the "hole" in the camera base or something
else? I measured my A710's tripod mount and didn't come up with
exactly 1/4 or 3/8.

Finally, what's the difference between a Hogen (sp?) and a Giotto?
Thanks.


Hi all.

I bloody knew it.

I knew he would ask if his camera took a 1/4 or 3/8 Screw.

Zen ( Soothsayer) Master Roy