Every now and then we learn something when it isn’t expected.  This just happened to when testing the stiffness and damping of the  Jobu Design Killarney tripod.  The Killarney has a unique design for the feet.  Instead of feet that screw in via a standard 3/8″ thread, a solid metal spike is glued to the […]

Conventional wisdom has long been to use a cable release when shooting off of a tripod to eliminate any movement of the camera caused from physically pressing the shutter.  I agree with this wisdom, but needed to put it to a quantitative test. For this test, I placed the Fuji GFX and 120mm GF lens […]

As a tripod blog, we want to establish under what conditions a tripod is even necessary.  Conventional wisdom is that sharp images can be obtained in handheld shooting down to roughly 1/focal length in shutter speed.  I want to put that to the test using a high resolution camera, the best lenses, and a quantifiable […]

We have been focusing on the forces that wind pressure places on the camera, but wind is far from the only external force that acts on a camera.  In this post we are going to look at the amount of torque placed on the camera from handling the controls and pressing the shutter button.  We […]

In the previous post, I detailed the methodology for testing how much torque wind places on different camera and lens combinations.  I used a leaf blower mounted on a tripod and an anemometer to measure the exact wind speed being delivered.  That post only contained data for a 20 MPH wind speed.  Here, I repeat […]

Understanding how much torque is put onto cameras during shooting conditions is the last piece of the puzzle towards understanding how much tripod stiffness is necessary.  Previously we had looked at the amount of torque placed on the GFX cameras under real world wind conditions.  Those results were useful, but the variance in real world […]

Edelkrone, the maker of video motion and support gear, has launched a line of 3D printable versions of their products, known as Ortak.  Edelkrone will manufacture the critical parts and ship them to you as a kit, letting you 3D print the rest.  The first of these products is a version of their popular Flextilt […]