Video of Every Type of Tripod Head Explained (almost) Getting the perfect tripod for your style of shooting and the genre you most commonly shoot can be a little tricky. Here is a guide to the different tripod heads you can buy and what each of them is used for. Tripods are a tricky area for photographers, beginners through to professionals. They aren’t nearly as sexy as a new camera body or a new lens, and they aren’t even as interesting as a new filter set. All you want a tripod for is to keep your camera still when you take a shot, so why would anyone want to spend time researching and then lots of money on a top of the range tripod?! Well, it’s difficult to overstate how important they are if you are using tripods regularly. When I first started out, my father-in-law went up into his loft and pulled out his tripod from when he did photography in the 1970s. Perfect, I thought, now I don’t have to buy one. I attached my camera to it and it stood proud and tall in the living room, awaiting instructions. Then I took it out for an […]
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