At 11:36 PM 1/21/2001 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/21/01 6:29:11 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< A more stable one for you would be the G1227, which weighs the same, has
>only 3 leg sections but is higher at 163cm/66" - also rather short for most
>purposes. >>
>
>For information purposes only: does anyone, other then we macro shooters,
>accustomed as we are to crawling on the ground in search of tiny flowers or
>even smaller insect-type critters, ever shoot from a tripod *without*
>extending its legs? Or set a tripod up so the platform is just high enough
>off the ground to clear obvious foreground obstacles?
>And practically, isn't a tripod only used to steady/level the camera platform?
>Finally: why do we shoot from the standing position most of the time?
>
I have used my bogen with the denter column inverted to shoot witht eh
camera upside down but level even with a mushroom.
I think I have the 3021 leg set which can go very low.
Just not to have the same angle all the time, I often shoot with it low but
where I cn kneel or sit on my tush and still lean in enough to see through
view finder
Tiger Moses
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