Thanks for that Rubato, I had considered one,but have put is some bids on one of these.
My thinking is that I'd like to get into ND filtering for my landscape stuff, and that required longer exposure times, so a tripod would be more restful.
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Being a "film" guy (Minolta X700), having a tripod is very usefull. You can use it as a "mono-pod" just extend one leg rather than all three. And when you need it, at least the three legs are there to hold the camera up by itself. I have never been able to do timed exposures (night shots without flash) well without a tripod.
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I fancy doing a bit of that too O-n-W. The nice thing about digital is you can experiment across a wide range of exposure times and aperture/ asa, focus etc without it costing a bomb in film developing. Also you get instant feedback to adjust your next shots.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Years ago, when I first got my camera, I would put dates, times, aperature, exposure on a piece of paper in front of the subject so I could "fix" it next time. As you said, digital makes it soooooo much easier and much, much cheaper.Gob wrote:I fancy doing a bit of that too O-n-W. The nice thing about digital is you can experiment across a wide range of exposure times and aperture/ asa, focus etc without it costing a bomb in film developing. Also you get instant feedback to adjust your next shots.