Originally posted by Cerebum Three recent purchases, two of which have been tested. The giottos pro tripod with the benro ball head is fantastic. Really solid and well built. I would thoroughly recommend as it was half the price of a manfrotto. My HD DA 55-300mm ED WR is spectacular and seems to be even sharper than my DA-l
I am awaiting a manfrotto 3 way head that I got nearly new for £12. Tip:- get the fat fingers app. It searches for misspelled items. My manfrotto head was listed as a manfrotto
Originally posted by Rondec I agree with you, but here Reh is shooting snapshots, not necessarily trying to make great art. It's awfully handy to be able to get this sort of result from an APS-C camera, even if he can't bump the shadows a couple of stops in post.
There are just times when you are taking photos of your kids in a play or whatever and you can't (shouldn't) use flash. With this, you can still capture the moments with pretty decent results.
Thanks to both of you for your comments.
There are lots of places where neither flash nor a tripod is appropriate, but a photo with good DOF would be great; one of the points of this photo is that you can get a pleasing view with the KP @ 25600 {measured Color Depth and Dynamic Range notwithstanding}. Amateur sports, religious ceremonies, and shots inside historical buildings (*) come to mind,
(*) The last time I visited the home owned by Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, over 100 years after he was assassinated, they still had the carpets and wallpaper he saw. They preserve those artifacts by keeping the rooms quite dark, strictly forbidding use of flash, and severely limiting where visitors walk {they also forbid use of tripods, to "keep traffic patterns open"}