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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 594919" data-attributes="member: 13090">This is pretty much my approach as well. I think you need to match the tool to the job at hand. For myself sometimes all I need my tripod to do, really, is act like a third hand and hold the camera with decent stability. Exposure/shutter speed will be high enough that absolute, rock-solid stability may not be crucial to successful shots. In those instances my light as a feather travel-tripod will probably work just fine. When I start doing 30-second exposures for night photography, though, those light as feather travel tripods with their spindly little legs just aren't up to the task, which means dragging out the bigger, heavier tripod. Different expectation/needs = different tripods to handle them. If I could only have one tripod, it would be the biggest, heaviest one I own. ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 594919, member: 13090"] This is pretty much my approach as well. I think you need to match the tool to the job at hand. For myself sometimes all I need my tripod to do, really, is act like a third hand and hold the camera with decent stability. Exposure/shutter speed will be high enough that absolute, rock-solid stability may not be crucial to successful shots. In those instances my light as a feather travel-tripod will probably work just fine. When I start doing 30-second exposures for night photography, though, those light as feather travel tripods with their spindly little legs just aren't up to the task, which means dragging out the bigger, heavier tripod. Different expectation/needs = different tripods to handle them. If I could only have one tripod, it would be the biggest, heaviest one I own. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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