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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vincent" data-source="post: 344891" data-attributes="member: 15675">You need everything buy everything or you can not get a decent picture. Gear Acquisition Syndrome alert. To start, I prefer to take pictures of cars hand held, if you can get the shutter speed at a reasonable ISO that is the thing to do for me.Now this does not always work and that is where the tripod and monopod come in.After hand held the monopod seems my next choice (although practically rarely used for cars), it allows you to move more but then you still need a certain shutter speed since it is not 100% still. It is more to carry heavy lenses or when you expect later to stay a bit in the twilight.The Tripod is clearly the only solution for long exposures or long telephoto lenses (over 300mm), it happens more often then I expect that I´m in the pit stand at impossible times and have no possibility to carry correct light solutions (I´m not that kind of shooter anyway). The other thing is to have original angles in corners at tracks you might use long telephoto lenses where you need a tripod to get some reasonable results.Finally studio or location work almost always is an orchestrated set-up where you want to be stable and thus use a tripod.So it depends on your style, the events you want to cover and the lenses you want to use; not what others do.</blockquote>