Monopod good for long exposures?
ecphotoman
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I know they tend to use them for stabilization in sports shooting.
I do night landscapes and hate having to lug around a big tripod. Would a monopod work for a 8-15 sec exposure?
I do night landscapes and hate having to lug around a big tripod. Would a monopod work for a 8-15 sec exposure?
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Highly (as in extremely) unlikely imo.
If wanting to minimise gear / weight ... and getting around on a bike (pedal sort) is practical ... and you still didn't want to carry a tripod on the bike, use the bike (with stay/stand as a support and a superclamp or similar clamped to one of its frame tubes.
Beanbag ... and whatever (structure / wall / fence etc) is handy?
Whilst I don't do night shots I have found a superclamp (with small/med ballhead) very useful when doing certain sorts of things with relatively small / lightweight gear - ideal for clamping to metal railings /fence posts etc.
Could also make adaptors to allow use of same with quick release canvas /webbing straps ... to go round bigger items (like lamp posts / tree trunks etc)
All this type of stuff would be fairly lightweight and fit into a smallish rucksack.
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That settles that lol. My tripod is on its last leg lol. I guess ill upgrade.
This was back in the film days. I'd stumbled across a fire, 13th floor (snort) of a major apartment building. Past twilight, into dark. I can't recall all the film parameters, but my recollection is that I had 800 as the fastest film in the toolkit. (Maybe I was half a roll in?)
I ended up taking a monopod, bracing it against something (I want to say a utility pole) and the ground, at an angle, to capture a reasonable 1/4 second shot I'd not have been ablet to capture handheld.
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Sorry but that is just the nature of the BEAST..... :~}}