On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:53, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > >> ..and portrait shots are almost completely out of the question! > > Unless you're using longer glass, which generally has a tripod collar. > And as to leaning, with longer lenses the angle of "lean" needed to > correct your framing is very shallow when angling up or down > because of > the length of the lens. > > While a head on a monopod certainly can be useful in a number of > situations, I've never seen one in the camera bay at a ball game. I > personally don't have one. It would take some real convincing to get > me to use one, especially with a long lens. >
I concede the point for that kind of situation! My usage of monopods has so far been restricted to low-light concert situations with mid-length (28-75) zooms. The ballhead is quite handy in that situation to flip the camera onto its side from time to time. Mostly I was amused by the image of someone trying to brace a monopod against a wall or something in order to get the "portrait" shot. :-) -Charles -- Charles Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
