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Use camera support system and tripod plate at the same time without changing the adapter plate

megaadmin — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:28:54 +0000

For a long time I wanted to buy a carrying system for my camera, but one thing I didn’t like at all: I didn’t want to have to screw another adapter plate to the camera every time I changed from tripod to carrying system or vice versa. Now I found a suitable solution without having to screw it on and off. With this solution, you use an adapter plate permanently screwed to the camera for both the mounting in the tripod head and for the carrying system. Time-consuming and annoying retooling is no longer necessary.

Screwing on and unscrewing the adapter plate is annoying

I shoot almost 40% of my photos with a tripod. Especially with HDR and long exposures there is no other way. For this reason, an adapter plate is permanently screwed under my Nikon D500, which allows a quick attachment to the tripod head. Depending on which tripod I use, I either have to change to the adapter plate of my travel tripod or to the one of my heavy Cullmann Magnesite tripod. Already these two variants annoy me. Mounting the different plates takes time, is fiddly in the cold and I simply can’t act fast enough.

Most camera carrying systems come with their own adapter plate, which is used to attach the camera to a strap, belt or strap. That would be the third different adapter plate in my photo backpack. If I imagine that during a nightly walk at the marina in Abu Dhabi I would first have to unscrew the adapter plate of my carrying system in order to then screw on the adapter plate of my travel tripod, it shudders at me.

I wanted to install an adapter plate on my camera, which I can then clamp in the carrying system and both tripods without having to change anything.

Which adapter plate fits both in a tripod head and in a good carrying system?

What I was looking for was a standardized adapter plate. So I searched for “Adapter plate tripod camera norm” at Google. This way I came across a standardized format called “ARCA” or “ARCA Swiss” for the first time.
I then searched for these two names at Amazon and found a suitable storage system, which uses exactly this kind of adapter plates: The “Peak Design Capture Clip v3” is a carrying system for attaching the camera to belts or rucksack straps and promises a quick mounting and dismounting of the camera.

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Mount the camera on the tripod despite the carrying system adapter plate.

As a travel tripod I use the “Rollei Compact Traveler No. 1 Carbon“ because it is very compact and lightweight to stow on air travel. Due to its low weight, it is also suitable for carrying on belts or backpacks, even on longer hikes. The stability of the tripod is still sufficient for me, only with strong wind the tripod comes to its limits. Acuh in terms of arca compatibility I was lucky with the “Rollei Compact Traveler No. 1 Carbon“. Actually, I was already looking for an alternative tripod head for the travel tripod, but when I looked at this again in detail at Amazon, a feature of my tripod on the Amazon product page caught my eye. Rollei writes that the “[…]360° magnesium panorama ball head with camera quick-change plate (Arca Swiss compatible)[…] is. Bingo. At the latest now I knew that I was on the right track.

Rollei Compact Traveler No.1 Carbon Schwarz, 145cm Kamera Stativ Leichtes Reisestativ mit Kugelkopf Arca Swiss Kompatibel...*

【Leichtes und Tragbares Reise Kamerastativ】 Das Compact Traveler No. 1 Stativ wiegt nur 0,98 kg mit einem Packmaß von nur 34 cm....
【Stabiles und Langlebiges Carbon Fiber Tripod】Das Stativ besteht aus hochwertigem und robustem Carbon mit einer maximalen Tragkraft...

Now the question remained, how to get my big, heavy “Cullmann MAGNESIT 525M CW25“ compatible to the ARCA adapter plate. The 3-way tripod head mounted on the Cullmann was not very reliable anyway, as the screws often loosened by themselves and I would like a ball head much better because of the smaller packing dimensions. So I started looking for an ARCA compatible ball head. I came across the “Andoer TB81X Stativ Kugelkopf“ and ordered it for testing.

Andoer TB81X Kugelkopf Stativkopf 360 Grad Panorama Kugelkopf für Stativ Einbeinstativ Slider DSLR-Kamera (3pcs Schraube Adapter...*

Material: Der 360-Grad-Kugelkopf aus hochwertiger Aluminiumlegierung ist in einem präzisem CNC-Verfahren hergestellt worden, sehr...
Stativ-Kugelkopf: Der Kugelkopf-Durchmesser beträgt 36 mm, max. Belastung: 8 kg. Der Durchmesser des Bodens beträgt 49 mm, hat eine...

Even ARCA adapter plates differ from each other

After receiving the “Andoer TB81X” I noticed soberingly that the supplied adapter plate of the “Rollei Compact Traveler No. 1 Carbon“ fitted into the “Andoer TB81X“, but not the other way round. The adapter plate of the “Andoer TB81X” is not square, but slightly elongated, which is why the inclusion in the travel tripod is not possible. No problem, as long as you always carry the square adapter plate of the travel tripod on the camera. This doesn’t harm the secure hold of the camera in the tripod head.

A few days later I received my “Peak Design Capture Clip v3” and unpacked it. I attached the supplied adapter plate to my Nikon D500 and even before I tested the carrying system, I had to find out if this adapter plate really fits into all tripod heads. The result pleased me, because now it was possible for me to snap the camera into the carrying system after remaining or to set it into one of my two tripods, completely without the conversion of the adapter plate. Ingenious.

The whole thing explained again in the video

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Photo trip to the visitor mine Kleinenbremen

megaadmin — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:30:26 +0000

The visitor mine in Kleinenbremen in Porta Westfalica is ideal for a small photo trip. I used a November day for an underground tour. So I was able to test my new photo equipment and internalize the operation of my new camera. My girlfriend was also happy. We had already had the mine on our list of activities for quite some time. Good luck! (Glück auf!)

New equipment should be mastered. So before I go on an Oriental cruise, I had to learn a lot of things about my new Nikon D500. Also a little practice with the quick assembly and dismantling of the new tripod should still be included, so that the use in the wild does not take too long. A trip to the Kleinenbremen visitor mine seemed to be a great way to do this. A brief look at Instagram promised exciting motifs. I had already visited this place as a child, but could hardly remember it.

The Kleinenbremen visitor mine offers the best conditions for taking photographs under adverse conditions, not only because of the rugged environment, the temperatures and the wetness, but also because of the guided tour. Here it is important to be quick. Set up, align the camera, adjust the camera, start the HDR-series and the miner screams “Come on, you have to stay tuned in, don’t fall behind”. Thirty people turn to me. Yeah, all right. I’m coming already.

Under ISO 400, nothing works here today, any lower ISO value would increase the exposure times within the HDR range excessively and I would get shouted at again. Of course I know the tour only takes 1 1/2 hours and you can’t wait for any hobby photographer. But it is this circumstance that trains best to be quick. Anyway, there should be guided tours for photographers only. Maybe at more expensive rates, but with fewer participants and more time for the different scenes.

A small train takes you deeper underground into the mountain. The small 4-seater cabins in the train are actually made for hobbits. In any case, of my kind, no 4 persons will fit into the small gondola – only in pieces. Thank God I folded the tripod to a minimum in no time at all. Not to imagine what would have happened, the miner would have had to wait 10 seconds for the descent, because I would have had to fold two tripod legs.

Nevertheless, the whole trip was a lot of fun and I can only recommend it to every ambitious photographer. Take a light and small travel tripod with you, because otherwise you can give up in difficult lighting conditions without a tripod. For my part, I rely on my only 980 gr. heavy Rollei Traveller No. 1 Carbon (Amazon-Affiliate-Link). Be sure to use RAW file formats for fine-tuning the white balance, especially if you want to work with exposure bracketing, like me, and for general exposure compensation.

It is advisable to stay at the end of the group of visitors as a photographer. This gives you more time to take your picture and prevents other visitors from walking through the picture and destroying your pictures with a flashing mobile phone light.
Bring wipes for your camera and lenses. Otherwise, dripping water from the gallery ceiling can quickly interfere with photo fun.

I am aware that not everyone has a technical understanding of photography and I can’t expect that. But actually, after the third photo with the iPhone LED flash in the 800 meters long, dark tunnel, the last one might have noticed that this kind of thing doesn’t work. And if you don’t understand why, then at least after looking at the result, you should check this matter out for yourself. Far from it. Let’s try eight more flash photos. At least no one photographed with iPad.

The Kleinenbremen visitor mine is closed on Mondays and Fridays.

From 1 March to 30 November, entrances will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 11:30 a. m., 1:00 p. m. and 2:30 p. m.
On the NRW public holidays there are also entrances (November 2017).

Additional information: The visitor mine in Kleinenbremen in Porta Westfalica is ideal for a small photo excursion. I used a November day for an underground tour. So I was able to test my new photo equipment and internalize the operation of my new camera. The girlfriend was also happy. We had already had the mine on our list of activities for quite some time. Lucky up!

http://bergwerk-kleinenbremen.de

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Set up Nikon D500 for bracketed exposure series for HDR

megaadmin — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:46:39 +0000

In this video I’ll show you how to set up the Nikon D500 to create an exposure bracket for HDR shots. We store all HDR-specific settings in a separate user setting under the photo and individual settings, so that we can quickly switch between normal workflow and HDR workflow.

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Here is the video showing the correct settings:

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And here again the menu settings in text form:

Selecting the correct operating mode

First of all we make sure that we operate the camera in mode “A“.

Photo Shooting -> Create new photo shooting menu bank for HDR

Photo Shooting Settings

Change Storage folder name to HDRD5 for example – (so we have our own directory for HDR photos)
Change file naming to HDR for example – (so we can distinguish HDR-photos already at the filename from “regular” photos)
Picture Quality RAW
Imagesize L
NEF RAW, lossless compression with 14-bit
ISO-Auto OFF, start at 100
White balance Cloudy
Active D-Lighting OFF
Noise Reduction with Long Time Exposure OFF
Vignetting Correction OFF
Auto distortion control OFF
flicker reduction OFF
Auto bracketing set AE

Custom settings -> Create new custom settings bank for HDR

Custom configuration settings

C – Timers/AE lock -> C3 Self-timer -> Self-timer delay 2
C – Timers/AE lock -> C3 Self-timer -> Number of shots = 5
Interval between shots 0.5 seconds

Enable exposure bracketing before shooting

Hold down the BKT button and use the rear dial to set 5F for exposure bracketing with 5 levels. 1.0 select for whole step size.

Switch to self-timer, and take pictures. Now 5 shots are taken automatically within the configured exposure bracket with a lead time of 2 seconds.

After the end of the HDR shooting

Photo capture configuration back to standard configuration
Individual configuration back to standard configuration
Hold down the BKT button and use the rear mode dial to set 0F for deactivated bracketing.

How to develop the HDR photo / Which Software to use

As a software for HDR merging I use Aurora HDR 2019.
You can get yourself a free trial by clicking this link: https://skylum.grsm.io/ENAuroraYT

My first choice as a Lightroom alternative

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