Monopods

Trever1t · Sep 12, 2011

doh, yeah, mybad! OK my excuse for being dense are as followed but not limited to :

I'm tired.
work's a bore
my headache won't quit
boss was looking for me
I was too hungry to think straight
the instructions were in 5 languages, I read the wrong one.

Yes, stupid me. Of course I can turn it to the side and tilt it [faceplant]

edit: I did not have the unit in front of me when writing this and I was tired.

Trever1t · Sep 13, 2011

OK, I'm rested now and no, you cannot mount the head so that the tilt will function in lanscape and then switch to portrait without changing the orientation of the RC plate. Destin, please explain how you are able to do that?

Unless you use the head locked in a perpendicular position and not as a tilt head in landscape it isn't possible. For example if the foot of the pod was out in front of you 30* your camera would be facing 30* above the horizon unless you used the tilt to bring your camera back to horizontal (30*-) If you're using the stick/head combo as a rigid unit then sure but I think that defeats the purpose some, no?

Destin · Sep 13, 2011

Trever1t said:
OK, I'm rested now and no, you cannot mount the head so that the tilt will function in lanscape and then switch to portrait without changing the orientation of the RC plate. Destin, please explain how you are able to do that?

Unless you use the head locked in a perpendicular position and not as a tilt head in landscape it isn't possible. For example if the foot of the pod was out in front of you 30* your camera would be facing 30* above the horizon unless you used the tilt to bring your camera back to horizontal (30*-) If you're using the stick/head combo as a rigid unit then sure but I think that defeats the purpose some, no?

I'm thinking we use monopods quite differently. The foot of my pod is NEVER anywhere other than directly below the top of it. I put my QR plate on my camera body sideways so that when I tilt the head, it tilts the camera to the side instead of forward or backwards. I have never enountered a situation where I needed to tilt the camera up or down on a monopod.