Hi All, I copied this from a thread as it seems that Saleel has had great success using the Wimberley on a monopod. Live and learn for me :) :confused:
You can see the image at the bottom of this pane. The responses are all down below as I merged the comments otherwise nothing would have made sense. I asked Saleel to make some additional comments in hopes of educating all of us. His hoped for response will appear as a new comment. Hope that I do not confuse anyone :)
artie
Folks,
I am posting after a long gap...in fact several months gone in between after my last post!
This is the famous and spectacular courtship phenomenon of Great Crested Grebe - when they perform a dance using the aquatic weeds. The male picks up a few twigs and the female too picks us few twigs of aquatic weeds. There is an exchange of the weeds as a token of love. The display is so energetic that the birds rise out of the water and make interesting splashes.
Canon 40D , Canon 500mm +1.4x , ISO 800, Wimberly head on monopod,
1/750 at f 8.0 , evaluative metering -1/3
Cheers,
Saleel Tambe
East Croydon, Surrey, UK
www.saleeltambe.com
A beautiful bird I have missed since moving stateside. Nice water action and behavioural action. The slightly left of center framing makes the image feel a little unbalanced. maybe a central placement with this kind of action.
I need to try the wimberley on a monopod, it sounds interesting.
cheers
Gavin
With all due repsect, a Wimberely on a monopod makes zero sense to me.... Zero :) (I missed that....)
Many thanks Artie for your feedback #1 and #2. Also thanks to all others. Its always a pleasure to be back on BPN after a gap.
Regarding using Wimberly with monopod ( Artie's #2 point) - Honestly speaking - even I was quite apprehensive in the begining and fully agree with Artie that it does not make much point to use a wimberly with monopod.
BUT,
What I always found that When I attach my 500+1.4x combo on a monopod directly via the tripod collar - it restricts the upwardly and downwardly swivel / turn movement quite a lot.
Instead if I attach a wimberly on a monopod, the manouvering of the lens become much easier for me and helps me especially if I have to quickly point the lens up or down or to follow a BIF path. Otherwise its quite difficult to turn the lens up or down by a sharp angle because the tripod feet can't be flexible enough for sharp angles.
Not sure how much it makes sense to everyone - but to me it is a lot more convenient and flexible !
cheers,
Saleel Tambe
www.saleeltambe.com
Thanks a ton Saleel. As I have never used a monpod, I am the student here. What puzzles me is that stability is not adversely affected. Do you also lock the head before shooting? Do you set a fairly firm tension? Do see the safari mount thread in Photo Gear. In fact, I will copy some of this to that thread and hope that you can respond there. Will post a link if I am successful :)