How to choose a tripod?
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BUDGET
First, what is your budget? Normally, it depends on the total budget of your camera equipment. The budget for buying a tripod is about 10-15% of the total investment. Then choose a tripod for the camera according to your budget. The Fotopro X-go series is a fully functional and economic choice; it’s including two versions of carbon fiber and aluminum alloy tripods.
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What is a need for the shooting?
If you are an outdoor shooter or a female user, you should choose a lightweight tripod, such as the X-Aircross series.
If you are shooting a starry sky, you should choose a tripod that is as stable as possible on the basis of lightweight, due to the need for long exposure, such as the Aurora P series.
For indoor, you can choose a heavier and more cost-effective aluminum alloy tripod.
If you are climbing stairs to shoot, you can choose a professional mini tripod, such as X-go mini.
The professional mini tripod X-go mini is suitable for shooting all kinds of stairs. For the video, we would recommend the flip lock tripod and fluid video head.
For ecological shooting such as bird shooting, you can choose a tripod with fluid head or gimbal head, such as the Fotopro Innovation tripod and head Eagle series.
A quick shot of the sports, you can choose a more flexible monopod,such as the AK series, 1 second to expanded and fixed.
A need for vertical shooting, an L-bracket can be additionally used.
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Height
According to your height, choose a tripod of the right height is very important.
The suitable height of the tripod is about 20cm shorter than your height.
If you are used to photography with your feet apart, you need to reduce 4-10cm.
The right height can make shooting more comfortable.
Photographic equipment
Choose a tripod according to your photographic equipment. The mobile phone users can choose a flexible tripod, such as uFO series or a compact medium-sized tripod, such as FY series. If you are a micro-single user, you can choose a tripod with a maximum tube diameter around 22-25mm. The SLR users can choose 22-28mm diameter tripod. Mirrorless and SLR users can pay attention to the X-go series. If you are using a telephoto lens, it is safer to use a tripod with a maximum tube diameter of 28mm or above. For example, the Pantour series is suitable for users who are looking for a more stable.
The basic logic of the tripod:
When choosing a tripod, you must be clear about the basic logic of the tripod. Actually, stability and portability cannot be achieved at the same time. You have to find what is the most important for you.
The larger the tube diameter of the tripod, so the tripod loading capacity increases, then will be more stable.
The larger the ball diameter of the ball head, so the tripod loading capacity increases, then will be more stable.
More sections are to store smaller and more portable, but the stability will also decrease.
The diameter of each leg tube decreases by 3 to 4mm. The smaller the decrease, the smaller the gap and the more stable.
The one-piece tripod without center column will be more stable.
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