June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
13h 6m
English
William Ronat
Few pieces of video support equipment are as useful as the tripod. Simple in concept, elegant in function, the tripod has a long history of bringing needed stability to the world of photography.
In pre-video days, tripods served still and motion picture cameras. As far back as the 1860s, people like Matthew Brady were lugging tripods onto battlefields to help steady huge still camera equipment.
And before tripods became popular for image gathering, they supported the surveyors’ levels used to map out the countryside.
Why, you may wonder, a tripod? Why not a monopod, or a quadrapod, or an octopod? This question doesn’t require an Einstein to answer. One leg: ...
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