Paul Corfield
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Thought I'd post a photo of the new tripod I got for Christmas. These sell on ebay for £43 with free delivery which is excellent value seeing as it's basically a copy of a Manfrotto design which costs more than twice this amount. My dad has the Manfrotto version and he couldn't believe how cheap this copy version is.
The tripod is very strong/rigid when in use and easily holds the weight of the scope and camera. I tested it out in very low light after sunset and was getting lots of sharp images hand held at 1/20 and 1/30 sec at 900mm equivalent. Posted a couple of hand held images taken with the Antares 1.6X barlow. The tripod comes with a removable ballhead mount which I've found to be fine so far but any standard tripod head can be used if needs be. I've got the friction set so that I can move it to the target but if I let go it wont move and as the photos show it works well with no user induced vibration at all at slow speeds.
Paul.
The tripod is very strong/rigid when in use and easily holds the weight of the scope and camera. I tested it out in very low light after sunset and was getting lots of sharp images hand held at 1/20 and 1/30 sec at 900mm equivalent. Posted a couple of hand held images taken with the Antares 1.6X barlow. The tripod comes with a removable ballhead mount which I've found to be fine so far but any standard tripod head can be used if needs be. I've got the friction set so that I can move it to the target but if I let go it wont move and as the photos show it works well with no user induced vibration at all at slow speeds.
Paul.
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