Chris Trask wrote
> I used to be able to make hand-held exposures of up to a full second
> without
> blurring anything. Not so anymore, so I am having to improvise in order
> to enable my tripod to assist in situations where no tripod accessory is
> available or is too bloody expensive. And besides, it's winter and I have
> plenty of time to tinker in my shop.
>
> One accessory of interest was an extendable boom. I tried
> improvising with a
> monopod clamped in a Manfrotto Super Clamp, but that was a disaster
> waiting for an opportunity to happen. However, while rummaging in a
> thrift store I came across a Focal 20-08-41 tripod, which consists of a
> less than adequate set of legs with a quick-rise column, a mediocre 3-way
> head, and a nicely designed tilting crank-up boom. I quickly made a new
> 1-piece base for the boom with a 3/8" threaded mounting hole, and the
> result, named Frankenpod 01, is to be seen here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/8292007631/in/photostream
>
> Frankenpod 01 is a combination of a Manfrotto 3001 tripod, the
> crank-up boom
> from the Focal 20-08-41 tripod, a Velbon PH-250B head, and a Manfrotto 323
> quick release adapter. It seems to function as well as I had expected,
> and only time will tell if it is worth the effort.
For reasons of wanting maximum stability of camera, I have an aversion to
anything that takes the camera away from the apex of the tripod. Maybe
modern in-camera stabilisation such as possessed by the OM-D renders
that caution un-necessary.
Brian Swale
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