at last a tripod
Posted on August 9, 2010 - Filed Under News, Personal, Technology
G'day Boz as you know I have recently been encouraged to replace my old and broken Slick tripod (and I only had it for 30 year and you think it would take a bit of bouncing around in the back of a 4WD ute going down rough tracks) so after a few weeks of research and looking around shops, I bought one, oddly enough from the shop I went into in the first place (sigh I could of saved myself a few weeks research and driving around) I ended up with a Manfrotto 055XPROB, aluminium tripod with a horizontal centre column, which is a bit tricky, but looks useful, especially when getting right down to the ground. It will also extend to taller than me, which is very handy. But most important I tried it with my heavy lens and camera in the shop and it was very stable. I went for a pan and tilt head, an 804RC2 Basic Pan Tilt Head with Quick Lock, probably a bit smaller than I need for the heavy lens, but will be fine for all my other lenses. And, after spending all that (it was a bit expensive i thought) I forked out a bit more for a cable release, of course these days they are electronic. I thought I would get a Pentax one, but as too often happens, the shop didnt have one, however one salesman who was a fellow Pentaxian suggested I could buy the same as he uses, believe it or not a Canon Remote Switch RS60 E3, but hey it works and thats what matters :). So after I get home and have a bit of a play, fiddling with this and that, and waiting till it got dark. It was time to take it out into the backyard with the pentax 10-17 fisheye on it and try a shot or two. The first one was way to short an exposure and came out black, but the second showed a bit of promise.
fisheye night sky
