3 Legged Thing’s Wes and Ridley tripods level the camera, not the legs

Anyone who has photographed on a hillside knows the routine: set the tripod down, discover the horizon is off, then start extending and retracting individual legs while the light does what it likes. 3 Legged Thing’s two new tripods take that job away. Wes and Ridley are carbon fibre models with integrated levelling bases, and they are available now — details on the Wes and Ridley product pages. Why a levelling base earns its keep Both tripods carry an integrated levelling base offering 10 degrees of movement in every direction, so you level the camera rather than the legs. On uneven ground that is the difference between a few seconds and a few minutes, and it matters most in exactly the situations where you have least time — a sunrise on a slope, a bird that has just landed, a match about to restart. It matters even more for video....