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Tripod and Head’s working with your camera.

Over the years, like others, have bought a tripod and head, a year later bought another one. I guess its part of the learning process in photography that we start out with the basic and as we improve in our work, we find the need to upgrade to the next.

At the moment, I have two tripods and one head that I use, one is a Manfrotto 190XPRO Aluminium 3-Section tripod that you can get for £200 and Giottos Silk Road YTL8383, which was around £220 which is no longer available but the model thats replaced it is the Giottos Pro Series 8383 Carbon Fibre YTL Silk Road Tripod. The head I have currently is the Manfrotto Mag Ball Head 057 Q6, which is around £219 and has the Arca Swiss plate system on it that quick release.

Different types of photography call for different types of tools, so the aluminium tripod is used for the studio and in the field when working with filter systems like Lee Filters, so you have a sturdy tripod thats not going to move. The carbon fibre is for that track in the country and because its light but strong, is easy to carry. The 057 Q6 is a smooth magnesium ball head and one of the best I've had and easy to control and smooth and will hold a heavy DSLR and large lens when needed.

When doing portrait work, you want the camera turned on its side to be in portrait mode, and the good thing with the Q6, is that it has a slide that won’t let the camera go passed 90 degrees, which is helpful.

But wouldn’t it be great to be able to take the camera and turn it portrait and lock it into the head?

The Bracket So this is where I'm leading to, a simple device that fits onto the camera, which is L shaped so you can turn the camera from landscape mode to portrait onto the tripod head. It seems that no one talks about it or promotes the idea of a bracket that can make life so much easier and work more effectively.

I only found out about a L bracket while seeing a fellow photographer doing a Facebook live video of him at a waterfall with his filter system. He had the orange bracket on his camera and so I was interested what it was. Once he explained, I thought this is a great idea and would be perfect for me and my work.

Now I like Manfrotto equipment, so I looked online for an L bracket that would fit my ball head. It was confusing at first and ended up calling customer services and was told that the Q5 L bracket would fit my ball head. Now the price was £119, which is a lot of money for what it is, but I ordered it only to find that it wouldn’t fit as it wasn’t a Arca Swiss connection. This is slightly annoying as I had to send it back, but it turns out that Manfrotto don't make a L bracket for the Arca Swiss, which doesn’t make sense to me. I was about done with the idea, but I rang Wex Photo and ask the same question, but was there another make that had the Arca Swiss design.

They came back and said yep you can get the ‘3 Legged Thing QR11-LG L Bracket’, this turn out to be the same bracket that I had seen in the video the fellow photographer had. They do two colours, orange and black (strange idea of orange), but the price was just £44! As I do I did some research and looked at some reviews and they were good, so I ordered one and it arrived today, but I got the black one.

The Manfrotto L bracket doesn’t have anyway of being able to access the ports on the camera, so tethering is out of the question, if you use a battery grip the L bracket just wont fit. I know all of this as I looked at it when the one I ordered arrived. Things like this being miss out in design isn’t good in my view, I think that even though it would fit the ball head, I still would of sent it back.

3 Legged Thing QR11-LG L Bracket is so much use friendly as you have the ability to open port and tether amongst other things.

As you can see in the images that with a battery grip on the camera, the bracket doesn’t even come into connection with the port doors. The only thing that gets block is the battery compartment, but to me thats a small price to pay. The bracket has a grip floor that connects to the camera, so it won’t move around if it works loose, its sturdy and easy to put on the camera and the manufacturer actually includes a multi tool that has flat screwdriver head and a Allan key thats all in a D-ring shape that you can hook onto your tripod or your belt.

With the Arca Swiss quick release, its a solid feel to the whole thing and quick to use.

If you are getting into portraiture, then maybe this might be for you, then maybe not, but at least its been put out there what it can do and help your workflow.

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