Oh yeah ... the tripod 'big boys'. I personally like Manfrotto

One happened to fall when I was using my Nikon FM10, mounted with a Metz flash. Thank God it fell onto a carpet. Imagine, I paid THOUSANDS for a SLR and it fell mounted onto a RM99 tripod ... bang head man!!

Never EVER mount your DSLR on 'gift' tripods!!

Yeah I know ... there are those other brands like SLIK, Hakuba, Gitzo and Veron, etc.

Hahaha ... dun confuse the topic starter PLEASE!

I am not a very 'Monopod' or 'Tripod' fellow ... so I use my Canon tripod. Damn heavy duty ... used on lens, used on body, even mounted flash also!

For compact to prosumer cams, 'below RM100' is good enough, but not those RM55 plastic ones lar wahlau ...

Those that comes with your package is good enough i.e Nikon, Canon, Sony, etc. OEM tripods should be good enough for their own brand of cameras what ...

Snatch thieves can steal anything, be it camera or tripod or notebook or your kids ... be EXTRA careful at all times!

Errr ... sometimes a tripod tips over is becoz we didn't fixed it properly. Yeah, you can mount a flash to a tripod in a Master-Slave configuration. Very technical shi!t

This post has been edited by ac98: Sep 13 2006, 05:07 PM

Good question ... see what you done? ac98 is going to be Long Air again!

1. Use a tripod wisely : When you really have to leave your camera mounted and unattended for a period of time, say 10 seconds for a Portrait/Group photo, be sure that it's within your reach and of course running distance should someone decides to have a good dash for your precious investment. My relative lost her camera in Shanghai in a busy tourist spot and another friend of mine her BF lost a Valentine's Day present which is a digicam in France, when you think the LEAST those Mat Salleh won't gasak your things!

2. Not really relevant to this topic but had to warn you all :Never ever let a stranger use your camera to shoot you or shoot your group. It happened even in Malaysia that the bugger took a dash for it after the shot at Super GT last year. I first heard it happened to my relative during her China trip where the guy cabut after taking her photo, pity her only one girl there and it's her only camera. As a result, she bought another digicam in China, which lasted her only 3 weeks, after that kaput-ed! (Won't mention the brand coz I think it's a fake one using the brandname, I checked)

3. Check your Tripod before making a purchase :
- Take out the tripod from it's plastic/casing. Always ask for a new one, dun buy the demo tripod! (You're not THAT desperate right ...)
- Unlock and loosen everything, dun leave any levers or locks partialy tightened. That way you will remember all the levers and locks and won't forget to tighten any of them later.
- Spread all the legs (tripod legs I mean) and tighten all the locks/levers on a level ground. If it has a water level dun worry about it, it's not important becoz it's mostly cosmetic. REAL water levels that WORK cost a BOMB to own!
- Firmly press on the tripod head with your palm and see if the legs will bend under the stress. They should not bend under that kind of stress, unless you put pull strength on it.
- Decide on your purchase!

Yeah, agreed. I dun recommend bomb-costing tripods/monopods as well.
It's like trying to lift a textbook using a forklift

This post has been edited by ac98: Sep 13 2006, 05:45 PM

Can get a OEM tripod with that price i.e Canon, Sony or Nikon tripod. Got change somemore!

Article? I wrote myself one-ah!

Yeah I love to write but still learning. I dun like to sound long winded
They say good writers define more points rather than going round-and-round. Sometimes I feel that I am going round-and-round ... I need more points

This post has been edited by ac98: Sep 14 2006, 09:19 AM

Dunno where to buy? Plenty of shops got what ... Foto Shangri-la, Sony shops, Harvey Norman, etc.

Yeah I know you heard of spirit level, but one did fell off my last 2 tripods, which cost less than RM100 ones. It's water in there I know, coz one of them actually DRIED up on me! Those are cosmetics, to make any chiplak tripod look 'pro' and 'expensive' ...

Wah ... tripod ALONE 880g-ah ... can hold a 30D/D200 ler!!

Cost for tripods are very low ... RM20 at cost can sell RM88