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Quick-release intermediate mounting plates?
Robert Coe writes:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:49:31 -0500, Neil Ellwood wrote: : With tripod/camera mounting plates it is usual to buy one for each camera : you are going to use so that you can change cameras on the tripod easily : and quickly. And those puppies cost $22 each, even at B&H. Oh, well, I guess nobody said photography would be cheap. :^| Or the Really Right Stuff L-bracket for my D700 cost $140. Definitely not cheap! (Then the replacement foot for the 70-200 cost $100.) |
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Quick-release intermediate mounting plates?
Ryan McGinnis writes:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Robert Coe writes: On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:49:31 -0500, Neil Ellwood wrote: : With tripod/camera mounting plates it is usual to buy one for each camera : you are going to use so that you can change cameras on the tripod easily : and quickly. And those puppies cost $22 each, even at B&H. Oh, well, I guess nobody said photography would be cheap. :^| Or the Really Right Stuff L-bracket for my D700 cost $140. Definitely not cheap! (Then the replacement foot for the 70-200 cost $100.) Yeah, but lets be honest -- $22 is pretty cheap for such a great and useful piece of equipment. I'm sure it's crazy high-margin -- but when you think that a decent tripod, head, and set of quick release plates can be purchased for under $500 and will likely last you more than a decade, without going obsolete, that's some great value. I upgraded the head on my old Bogen tripod from their big clums not very stron ball head (the 168 I think) to the RRS RH-40, with lever clamp, and put a lever clamp on my monopod too, and got the l-bracket, and the foot. A simple little tripod upgrade, to a tripod that cost "a lot" back when at about $225 I think, ran me $896 or some such. Pardon my sticker shock; one of the problems of living through 50 years of inflation. Some day I may replace the legs as well; shudder. |
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