Giles,
Joe's thinking, as he said to me, was to widen the stance to dampen the
vibration and to lower the profile to minimize the effect of wind. After he
suspended weight from the center post and added sandbags on top the the
whole deal looked like a machine gun from some WWII movie. I could not argue
with his results however. The images (a week's worth of lectures) are some
of the sharpest I've ever had the pleasure to view.
Tim
Giles wrote:
> I am no engineer but I would have thought that maximum mechanical
> stiffness would be
> achived when each foot was equidistant from the other two and that
> distance was the same as the length of a leg.
>
> Giles
>
> Tim Breen wrote:
>
> > I took a class from Joe MacDonald (top caliber nature shooter)
> and he did
> > three things to obtain his razor sharp telephoto images:
> >
> > (1) splay the tripod legs and get the unit as close to the ground as is
> > possible.
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