Do you NEED a Tripod in 2021?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
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I'm not a fan of tripods, you probably know that. The thing is, for some photography, and a lot of videography, I need them. In this video I show how I work out when I need a tripod and when I don't for taking sharp photos.
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To be honest, I'm trying my hardest to stop saying 'to be honest' as much. Honestly.
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To be honest, that's probably not a bad thing.... To be honest that is
Nice tripod James................hey Emily, have you seen the price of this.....
To be honest, it is quite surprising how your presets have dropped in price. Honestly. Didn't I watch a video of yours where they were honestly announced at a million pound?
@@jan-hendrikbussmann4644 Don't be fooled, the 15 is actually 1.5 million
To be honest when you say to be honest you imply that you generally are dishonest. Wait...
'The reason for buying a new tripod are threefold'. That would be the legs then?
haha! Correct :)
Hates tripods gets excited about his new tripod.
ahahah
Buys perhaps the most expensive travel tripod on the market
Everyone gets excited about new toys
@@KieranPlayfair Nope that title goes to RRS 14
@@KieranPlayfair Take a look at pods from RRS and Gitzo. The Peak Design is pretty reasonably priced. Quality costs money.
Glad to see your photos are all up and framed.
I bought the presets just because 15 pounds is a nice price to just donate to thank you for all the free advice you’re giving, so it’s nice to get something back for it too!
Thanks so much :)
Shooting film, I’ve got used to relying on tripod any time:
- the camera requires it (e.g. large format view camera)
- the shutter speed is too low (slower than 1/60 or slower than 1/(2f) where f is the focal length, e.g. for 50mm I’ll go no slower than 1/100 sec)
- careful composition and angle of camera is wanted (e.g. to get straight lines)
- I want multiple exposures of the same scene (maybe something in it such as subject or light or clouds or my settings or film change)
As bonus it slows me down, which can be a useful thing.
On digital, I’d bump up the ISO, rely on IS, turn on grid lines and digital level on the display, rather than get out the tripod, unless maximum depth of field or a long exposure is wanted, or I want really low noise.
I totally get your love/hate relationship with tripods. They can be extremely useful but it's just so....ah who am I explaining this to. Anyway, great video. 👍
Also props for putting the ad at the end of the video. Much rather watch it afterwards. Nice move. ✌️
I love my tripod...
Aside from carrying, setting it up, adjusting it, taking it down and yeah.. Aside from pretty much everything about it.
However, the result WHEN I use it, is why I carry it. Is it worth it though? I haven't decide yet.
You're right, 600 bucks is an insane price. Nice tripod though.
I just bought your amazing presets for 15 Pounds....would have bought it for 1.000.000 but they were already cheap without a discount. So thank you very much :)
James, love the idea of carrying the tripod on the bike and take some shots, but it seems like, at least on my camera (Alpha 7C), using the interval shooting won’t refocus at every single shot. It focus when you press the shutter, after that all shots are focused like that. What I wanted was to be able to ride the bike towards the camera while taking shots...any idea how to accomplish that?
Another great Video, I'm personally fairly new and have a Nikon D3400 so heavy, noisy and NO IBS so often find using some sort of support EVEN use MONOPOD which I find more useful than it's 3legged cousins, as cant seem to get a sharp shots handheld - SO looking to upgrade to something lighter with IBS like A6600. Keep up the good work and always look forward to channel
James, we haven't had a drone based video from you in some time. Or where some drone footage is included. Or have I missed something?
That'll be lockdown here unfortunately - hoping it comes to an end next week :)
How are you enjoying the new camera and lenses? Btw, I love how informative and entertaining your content is. Sometimes it feels like I'm watching one of the cut scene interviews on the Office lol.
haha, thank you! Loving the new stuff - can't wait to actually go and use it post lockdown :)
I watched your first video titled: "Photography gear you shouldn't buy...", You mentioned Tripods as one of them. I got excited saying:"Yes! That's my man. He thinks in the same way as me.. Let's subscribe and binge all his videos!!"
Next video was this, promoting the most expensive non-professional tripod on the planet !!!!
Congratulations on your recent purchase of your new tripod, honestly. 😙
Horses for courses. I really like my tripod setup but each to their own :-)
How much for your old travel Tripod?
Good to see you question if your newly acquired tripod can go in the bin in the thumbnail😂
I find it hard to have low shutter speeds when I'm on a skateboard or rollerskating. The fact that I can't rollerskate or skateboard might also be the problem..... Maybe.... Probably..... Definitely
haha!
Bin???? On that really really expensive tripod you've just got???? Well, if you don't want it James, I'll have it? :D
and in all seriousness, I got one of those a few months back. It's fantastic, light, and fits in the top of my normal sized camera bag sideways! Bye bye big manfrotto!
And to think, I had just secured funding for several copies of the £1m preset bundle :(
damn!
@@JamesPopsysPhoto at least now I can put it as a down-payment towards living in someone's shed in London.
tripods, presets, full frame... I am doubting all that I thought was true and good in the world!!
It IS quite shocking.
James will be focus stacking next!
haha! Lockdown has done terrible things to me :)
The way of FF leads to tripods and shoulder strain - come to light side where IBIS and High Resolution mode will set you free!
"Brace myself with my head between my legs" - You don't want to know what my wife said when she overheard this! :) :)
haha! Set myself up for that didn't I...
Let's be fair, if he can take a decent image in that position fair play to the lad.
Emily the tripod cost £12 , just so you know, lol.
I see, that's why there is no link in description :)
I think it's so much on sale they removed '£'. Now it's just 12... of something
My hero!
I'm waiting for an episode where you just destroy tripods in creative ways, like Top Gear did with caravans. 🤣
haha! I'll have to get saving first :)
Am I the only one here childish enough to have laughed when James said, "Head between my legs..."?
So. Please buy my presets because I bought Peak Design.
Modern stabilisation systems are offering up to 8 stops advantage - equivalent of dropping 1/1000 to 1/8th second and dropping your ISO into the quality zone at the same time. Even sharp multi-second hand held shots are achievable -so my tripod seldom leaves home anymore.
The box is supposed to make you think “oooh, quality” not “tripod could have been cheaper” 😂😂
I’m brand new to photography, love the content, the dry sense of humour and the English accent 👍🏼
I 've been using the Peak Design travel tripod for a while now, because I refuse to put my head between my legs.
James.... how did you “throw” your voice like that? When you put on your new sunglasses you said “pretty cool huh?” without moving your mouth..... perhaps a hidden talent you have not showcased before? 🤣 Love the videos and what you do... please keep it up!!!
haha! Trying some editing I've seen elsewhere - not sure it worked...
While tripods are an annoyance, one reaches a certain age when avoiding coffee, dressing warmly, and other techniques just don’t do it anymore. One second with my G9? A dream long past...
I know, so sad but so true:(
Handheld is much more engaging for me, but I think it's a matter of taste. I see tripod photography as a totally different style of photography. I would compare it to using a drone.
But using tripods and drones can also give way better results because they are incredible tools.
What would a session with a psychologist cost? Cheaper than a Peak Design Tripod I think. Maybe one could cure your TRIPOD phobia!!
I only use a tripod when it's more than 1s - multi-shot/pixel-shift, dark sunset, night shots, etc. I spent a lot of time researching hand-held/auto-focus superiority systems. Pricey, to say the least. Sony a7R3, a9 and Leica SL2. And an S5 is on order.
I have benign essential tremors - so, basically, espresso shake without coffee, forever.
I have a few tripods for very specific purposes - one's for commercial art photography - massive carbon beast.
The other, equally as important one, non-carbon version of the Peak Design.
Here's the fun part: My personal favourite subject when travelling? Interiors of churches, basilicas and cathedrals.
No Tripod Allowed!!
Hah. So, I never even carry one.
I have watched every one of your youtube videos. I wanted to thank you personally for helping me with photography. Im new to photography and have learnt so so much from your videos, I love them and cant wait for the next one to come out. I never buy presets, but after using and learning and loving your free ones, when you posted news of more, I purchased them straight away. Cant wait to have a play with them. One thing you have mentioned in the past, is things you would like to see on your channel. One thing I really find useful is when you show how you edit your photos. Little quick lessons and tutorials in photoshop would be a great help to me as a beginner with photoshop. Anyway, hope this message reaches you. Keep up the great work. Love your photos and style
Thanks so much Marc :)
You can probably get away from using tripods with modern mirrorless cameras and IBIS. If you're a turbo-poor, perpetually failing amateur who can't justify the cost of a new camera to replace my 80D then yes, you totally need a tripod. Unfortunately that situation also means my tripod is as large and weighs as much as a giraffe...
On a side note, I also try to avoid coffee. I prefer a few swigs of whiskey to smooth me out... gotta be careful not to overdo it though, otherwise you'll wake up at 11 AM, pantless in a gully with a breakfast burrito smeared 70-200 lens and a St-Patty's Day hat, even if it's the middle of July...
Or so I've heard... yes, that's it... heard *nervous laugh*.
I still own a DSLR. It still does the job. I do not do video. I can still hand hold at 1/30 second, which is good enough. I shoot 90% of my photos on that camera between 1 pm and 4 pm. I know the light very well at those times of day by now. That includes overcasts days. I also have a Lumix LX100 which I have with me every time I leave the house. I ... never ... uses a tripod.
Hey, I’d have brought your presents as £15 is a fair price and a little less than I was expecting. Sadly I don’t use Lightroom instead preferring Capture One Pro, so I’m assuming the presets are not compatible. :-( p.s. you are my favourite content creator currently.
Honestly a tripod is just too slow and inconvenient to carry for me. Anything I can do on a tripod for my regular kind of shooting, I can do _significantly_ faster handheld. In the amount of time it would take me to set one up and get a single shot, I could have manually-focused anywhere between five and ten handheld and moved on. My shooting basically says that if I need a tripod, it wasn't something I planned on shooting or particularly enjoy shooting, and if it is, I'll have a wall nearby I can rest the camera on. And if I don't, ISO 6400 on an a7III looks plenty good enough to do 1/15th of a second handheld at 35mm or 1/80th of a second handheld at 200mm.
You're a hypocrite! If you don't like presets, why would you start selling thenm? Especially when you were offering them for free previously...
I dislike tripods personally but I find them useful for certain situations were hand holding for various reasons is impractical. Also, any comments on bumping the ISO up some to avoid using a tripod. This trick would be somewhat dependent on your specific gear and situation.
I primarily take pictures of the Nothern light usually at 13-22 seconds at 1.8 to 3.5 f so I'd say I need a tripod
Hey man really like your channel. I also really like your presets but I can’t really use them because I have fujifilm so I’m using capture one. Also light room does not have a free version to my knowledge and capture one does, so I use that. If there is some way you could put out a set for capture one that would be awesome. I know there probably isn’t but I figured I would throw it out there. Love your work man, keep it up
I also got this Peak Design tripod and I do not like it at all. You cannot do panorama and the controls are rubbish as you have to loosen up everything. I went back to my older slightly larger tripod for landscape
I shoot everything hand held but use my tripod when I shoot family pictures with myself in it.
Beyond stability, I find tripods help greatly with composition.
I'm one who often uses a tripod, but recently had to choose between taking my tripod, or crampons - which isn't really a choice. Light wasn't a problem and it was liberating to just 'get the shot'. But critically, I think I could have got better results if I had been able to frame shots with the accuracy of a stable platform.
The money for £600 tripods has to come from somewhere I suppose. ;-))
I have the 'cheaper' aluminium one, butty. Did agonise over whether to try and stretch for the carbon version but Mr Sensible prevailed for once.
Do you think monopod has any benefit as a support, apart from as a walking stick that is.🤔
My favorite kind of photography is astrophotography..try that handheld :P
For someone that hates tripods, that’s a fair bit of money to spend on one lol although the carbon fibre does look good so if it does sit on a shelf, at least it will make a nice ornament.
I use tripod for astrophotography and timelapse.
Yikes, I've just seen how much that thing costs. Pressing the Buy button must have raised a bead of sweat, given your role as Abassador of the Anti-Tripod League.
I think he was just buying the box and the sleeve, and they threw in a tripod as an unexpected extra. That's what he can tell the League.
I really hope I'll be going out into the mountains soon, but since that requires someone to drag mountains into my country, I don't think that will happen. :)
Hates tripods so much he spends the best part of GBP 450 on a new one. Therapy? Entertaining as always James. Keep it up and stay safe.
To be honest (to coin a phrase), as a primarily G9 shooter, the only time I carry a 'pod (Manfrotto BeFree GT XPRO Carbon) is when I plan to use high-res mode or take long exposures (mainly at night--I'm generally not a fan of the smoothing out waterfalls/raging seas cliché although I do have some NDs). I could possibly get away with hand-holding high-res (at least at shorter FLs) but why take a chance? I wish Panny would add a Mode 3 to facilitate this (if Oly can do it...).
Any chance of a dedicated review of the tripod?
with myOlympus EM1X I can hand hold my 300mm, FF EQ 600mm field of view down to 20th of a second. Some people even slower. With my 12mm, FF EQ of 24mm I can hand hold downt to 1 second sometimes even 2 with sharp results.
Presets are the biggest scam photographers sell.
So many questions can be answered with the word sometimes.
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the best tripod is the one that you take with you
My favourite reason for using a tripod is at events such as car shows when it's like carrying around with you a sign saying "Excuse me please,can you just stand to one side while I take this photo"? People tend to see a camera on a tripod and get out of the way of the photo without being asked a lot more often then when you're just some random bloke holding a camera.
That’s actually genius!
haha, in other words Tripods are basically Larry David in metal form...
I’m new to photography and to your channel. Loving the content and actually learning as I watch so thank you. Hoping to upgrade my equipment this year so I can progress with wildlife photography
Or you need a tripod when you buy a heavy telephoto lens. I'll need to build muscles to hold that Sigma 150-600mm C lens still. -Elaine
If you’re going to spend a lot of money on a tripod you should get a good one, stable one. A tripod with 5 leg sections is doesn’t fall into that category. Might as well use one made of toothpicks.
I mean, it seems to work pretty well based on the reviews and testing it has been through.
You could upload only videos talking about binning tripods and I'd watch every one of them
haha, thanks mate :)
Damn, I neverr downloaded your presents based on that video - I was nearly going to pay the $1M, but wasn't sure if it was pounds, euros, USD, roubles, or Iranian Rials so to be honest thought it easier just to not bother, like the tripod.... other than that stil love the snow dog photo.
I got a tripod with the idea of removing people from photo's. Multiple exposures.
I just take photos of the invisible man. Problem solved! 😂
Hi James. Have you tried the posture with the left foot in front instead of the right one? It looks to me that it'd be more stable. Anyway, I also hate tripods
Not sure if I ever use the presets, might enjoy looking through them but bought them anyway to support one of my favorite channels.
thanks so much :)
So what you're trying to say in this video is: It's easier to ask for forgiveness after you buy expensive photography gear than to ask for permission. OK, got it James 👍
No. He says that ignorance is bliss.
100% :)
Serious note, being and astrophotographer, I have to use a tripod...
Yeah that'll do it :)
I use tripods but to be fair I only really use them for video not for photos. 👍
Wow, such an expensive tripod from a person that keeps discussing how he hates them. Oh the irony!
Well that was an instant buy…
Not the tripod of course, but the Presets.
Thanks mate :)
gift me a camera pls
With the new level of inbody and lens stabilization one doesn't need a tripod but only for long exposures.
I would love a carbon tripod. But I think 530 Eurodollarpounds is just a tad beyond by budget. Looks nice though.
BUT....imagine what a great marketing coup for any tripod company that could say "WE GOT JAMES POPSYS TO USE A TRIPOD....If he needs it than you do too! Million dollar marketing campaign.
I hope you don’t mind picking your brains! Finding my Nikon d7200 and Sigma 150-600 too heavy for wildlife photography (age and bones!). Considering Panasonic G9 to reduce weight via lenses. I know that you like your G9. Do you have any advice that could help me please?
Of course you need a tripod, not just in 2021, but always.
Now we don't need them.. In 2021 cameras float by themselves... Fucking stupid title
The replacement bag is $25. That is less than 5% of the cost of the tripod. My wife got me this tripod for Xmas. I am very happy with it. I look forwarded to being able to travel again.
I tend to use a vintage trypods forinstance i just purchased this one HAMBURG Telescopic Camera Tripod With Leather Case Vintage Retro VGC - Fastpost and then ill stick a gimbal head on top or just a arca swiss quick release adapter plate on the standard head
To me - presets feel like cheating myself because especially when they are made to look nearly always good (like your old ones did) there is the temptation to just use them, and that would void all my style. However, eventhough im bad at it, it helped me to get some idea how to achieve certain things. I still havent fully figured out certain stuff i want to achieve but thats me just sucking. What im meaning to say: I try to keep my own style but learn from presets.
As for pricing, if its a few bucks, i see it as supporting the creator - especially if said creator doesnt have patreon. But pricing 15 presets at like 100$ feels like extortion, especially because you could actually just well... one guy buys it, and distributes them to 100 others, each paying .... you know what im going at. 15£ on the other hand feels like actually just "tipping" you via paypal or something like that. (more like 22$ here in switzerland ) so.. thanks...
Oh and for tripods... i have a manfrotto one that packs about the same as the PD but has different technical-bits n bobs... anyhow ... the moment when i require weight on my tripod, im usually hiking, and when im hiking i dont want to constantly take my tripod out of my backpack, set it up etc. take the picture and store it back... leading to me carrying a tripod on a 4h hike and using it.. like once or so :D - Thats why i finally pulled the trigger and ordered an R6 because IBIS hopefully helps me achieve sub 1/30s handheld exposures.
If your going to use a Tripod the Peak Design travel tripod is a beautifully engineered/manufactured thing, got one but rarely use it because I don't want to spoil it 😛
James, we all hate frigging tripods, but the fact is they are sometimes useful. Apart from the obvious benefit when it comes to fighting off unfriendly locals and not having to give up coffee, you sometimes just need them to do a wider range of options, e.g. when the weather turns shit. Also, some of us use not-quite-state-of-the-art camera equipment with 6-stop IS etc., and so the American Sniper routine just doesn't work.
Are we allowed to bring the devil (Olympus)? He has some very good image stabilization...
I look forward to Emily seeing the bank transaction for the Sunglasses and Tripod and shouting WTF is this!
haha, so far so good...
Do I NEED a tripod? I shoot film in what passes for light in the UK. And I've got a tremor. So yes, I NEED a tripod.
Hi James. Have you tried using electronic first curtain (or EFC) for your shutter setting? I have a G80 and even though it produces hardly any shutter shock, I have found I still get sharper results under 1/20th. It's a great mode as you get the advantages of an electronic shutter without having to worry about banding or rolling shutter issues. I'd highly recommend giving it a go if you haven't already. It doesn't work with flash and is limited to 1/2000th but that's no issue really.
Four ads in the first 2 minutes. Hmmm
just turned them off, that was a mistake :)
As i have gotten older, i found keeping my camera still enough for sharp images becoming more difficult. now I use a tripod when ever i can, when i cant, i use a monopod. Advances in technology are not always the answer.
No ibis?
It would be so awesome if you would shoot a Lady Gaga music video. That's something i would pay to watch. 😎📸 7:17
Word of caution; bicycles and (carbon fibre) tripods. Used to sling mine across the handlebars . . . and because I didn't use the tripod much; it stayed bungied there for quite a while. It wasn't till many weeks later that I realised one of the bolts, clamping the handlebars to the . . . "steery bit" . . well; the end of the bolt had almost completely drilled it's way through the carbon fibre leg. And catching hold of the roughed out bit of the leg was like broken glass. It took a bit of sanding to get rid of the ends of the fibres. I got a rear pannier rack after that. The tripod is still fine. But now it mostly lives in the back of the car . . somewhere. Oh dear; my dear old photographer lecturer, at the Plymouth school of art; always used to say; if he heard a shutter click; he'd turn round and there had better be a tripod underneath it. If I am doing special macro shots I usually use it. I am pretty sure it is still in the back of the car?
For moving wildlife photography, definitely. For most other types of photography generally no.