On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Christian wrote: > Paul Stenquist wrote: >> They don't appear large enough to require a tripod mount, certainly >> not the 50-135. > > I like tripod collars for making shooting verticals easier. Unscrew, > rotate, tighten, shoot. flopping the whole camera over on the tripod > screws up my composition and the relationship of the camera to my eye > and the flopped-over tripod head gets in the way of my right hand. > Also > I like to have my teleflash setup attached to the lens' tripod foot > (via > QR adapter) so that the flash is always above the lens.
I also prefer a rotating tripod collar for long lenses, but if the lens is light enough I will be comfortable using an L-bracket QR adapter for the tripod. I have one for the Manfrotto RC2 attachment heads and I'm sure one will appear for the K10D that mates to Arca- Swiss style QR heads too. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
