There are two commonly used types of tube locks used on tripods. Flip locks (also known as lever locks) use a plastic or metal lever to operate a cam to compress the upper tube and clamp the lower one. Twist locks use a threaded collar to compress a piece of plastic between the two tubes, […]
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Under Ideal Conditions, Sharp Images Can Be Obtained With Any Tripod
I just completed testing on the the MeFoto Backpacker Air, which has the ignominious crown of worst tripod as rated under my ranking system. Its not even close, the next worst tripod is by any reasonable metric at least three times better. This makes the Backpacker Air a perfect candidate to test a conjecture I […]
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In the previous post, I used a torque gauge to measure the amount of torque generated on a camera and lens under windy conditions. From this, we then directly calculated the amount of tripod stiffness necessary to hold the camera steady. While this is great, it is still a theoretical calculation made after many borderline […]
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