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Using a mini tripod

Using a mini tripod

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Using a mini tripod

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- All right Rich, so if we have micro tripods and we have a full size tripod, let's just go ahead and call this a mini tripod? - Yes, yes. This is a Low Boy, this is not lightweight, this is heavy duty aluminum. - Really is. - But you can actually extend those feet so this is kind of the middle of the road. I sometimes find when I carry a second tripod that this goes a long way. You can flay that out pretty flat, right? - Yeah, it's really nice, actually. Get that just with those legs right there. If you need to get that super low angle, look at that! That's pretty much as flat as it can get. - And one of the things I like on this one, you might notice here, is that they thought of the extra little things. When it's totally flat, they've got rubber tips there so it's not laying metal on metal, so it slides around. We do have metal spikes on here this could be swapped out these do extend, but this is supporting a full size ball head. I'm using the Arca-Swiss style plate. You can put…

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