Tripod

Because of the limitation of light and temperature, shooting stars and tracks at night, shooting mountains and rivers during the day, if you want to take a clean picture, you must use a tripod, hand-held cameras can not take long exposures, and the pictures taken shake badly.

1. What are the categories of tripods?
Generally speaking, the tripod can be divided into professional tripod, travel shooting tripod, desktop tripod and camera tripod
The height of professional tripod and travel shooting tripod is basically more than 1.5 meters, the foot tube is generally in three or four sections, and the load is more than 10 kilograms.

Desktop tripod is more popular in recent years in the network anchor or from the media shooting, generally only 1-2 tubes, or no, in fact, is a reduced version of the tripod, in addition to the height after the qualified desktop tripod and professional tripod function is similar, note oh, I said is qualified, relatively good desktop tripod.

Multifunctional camera tripod is mainly used to shoot video, ordinary people rarely use, or even rarely see, this is mostly used to shoot movies, TV series or some news organizations. The specific height of the camera tripod can be higher. The foot of the bracket is horseshoe foot, which has strong grip and higher bearing capacity than ordinary cameras. Medium-sized and large shooting equipment can be placed.

Parameters that beginners need to know when choosing a multi-functional tripod:
Tripod parameters:
> Product weight (determine whether it is light to go out)
> Stand material (determine whether it can be used in low temperature and harsh conditions)
> Gimbal type (adjust the shooting angle to increase the shooting stability)
> Safe load bearing (support the load bearing of camera + lens)
> Number of foot tube sections (the more sections, the more unstable factors. In most cases, the fewer sections, the better)
> Folding size (improve the convenience of storage and carrying out)
> Working height (adjust the tripod suitable for your height to reduce physical exertion and prevent backache)

2. Material of the tripod
Tripods are basically divided into four types of materials: aluminum alloy, plastic, carbon fiber, iron, these four materials of tripods, the current market mainstream is aluminum alloy carbon fiber.

The biggest advantage of carbon fiber tripod is light weight, hardness is OK, not too brittle, in addition to weight, the stability and durability of carbon fiber tripod compared with other materials of tripod, although there is a gap, basically negligible. But the price is more than half more expensive than the ordinary iron and aluminum alloy tripod.

Again, it's not that I don't believe in domestic products, nor that I'm not patriotic. Because of the production process and quality control of some domestic carbon fiber manufacturers, the quality of the finished products is not so OK. Therefore, when choosing carbon fiber tripods, it is suggested that foreign brands and well-known brands should be preferred. Domestic brand fathers, unintentionally slandered, just seek truth from facts.

According to the choice of tripod material is divided into two situations, the first is indoor shooting rarely holding tripod running around, it is recommended to choose iron tripod, because it is cheap, and stability, hardness is not bad; The second is to shoot more outside, to carry a tripod often run around, it needs to choose carbon fiber, because light, but more expensive than iron. If carbon fiber is light, it needs to be stabilized by hanging heavy objects at high altitude and low temperature.

3. Height of the tripod
The professional multi-functional tripod has three heights: the maximum height, the minimum height, and the maximum height of the non-rising central axis. Why is there a maximum height of the central axis that does not rise? It is because the stability of the central axis will become worse if the tripod rises. If you shoot in high mountains and strong wind, it will reduce the stability of the tripod.

Mainstream big brand tripod is generally 3-5 feet, under the same height, the fewer the number of feet, the higher the stability, the more the number of feet is more cumbersome, and the length of storage will increase. For many novice outdoor shooters, the stability of the tripod may be similar, but the length and portability of the tripod are obvious.

4. Expansion function of tripod
In addition to using cameras to shoot, some multi-functional tripods can also remove a bracket of the tripod and use it as a mountain pick. There are also some tripods that can be placed horizontally with the central axis. When you take a selfie, you can shoot from above or from above. It depends on whether your tripod has a horizontal central axis and whether it can be placed upside down.

If you are a video enthusiast who likes to use a tripod to record video, the camera tripod can be connected to a set of lights, microphones and microphones, which is generally more cost-effective than buying separately.

5. Tripod head
The Gimbal stabilizer is used to adjust the angle of the lens to take pictures. With the increasing popularity of video, the Gimbal stabilizer is also derived from the hydraulic Gimbal, which is specially used for video shooting. The left and right rotation of the hydraulic Gimbal stabilizer makes the video shooting more smooth, unlike the ordinary Gimbal stabilizer, which may stutter and cause the shaking of the picture, thus affecting the video shooting.

The tripod head is a very important tripod, the inferior tripod head is not easy to use, it is very easy to loosen and cause some trouble when shooting, so it is recommended to buy a better tripod. If the frequency of use is low, it is not necessary to buy some unpopular and cheap tripods.