Recent content by Missy1981

Thanks for all the helpful advice everybody. I don't have a shutter release yet but in the meantime I will use my 2 second delay. Please may I ask what mirror lock up is? I've not heard of this before :-)

Evening everyone, Recently I have really enjoyed practicing taking long exposure night shots. I love the look of these pictures and have been really inspired by some of the photos I've seen on here and on Flickr. Anyway I'm currently attending an evening class and last week we got to go out...

Evening everyone, Recently I have really enjoyed practicing taking long exposure night shots. I love the look of these pictures and have been really inspired by some of the photos I've seen on here and on Flickr. Anyway I'm currently attending an evening class and last week we got to go out...

Hi everyone, thanks for all the responses. I did what I thought was the best thing and tested the weight of a Manfrotto (one of the students in my evening class had one) and it did seem a bit too heavy for me. So based on weight and the recommendation of my tutor I've gone for the Benro...

Haha, that's the other thing that confused me! That Amazon had it cheaper! I would probably buy off Amazon as I trust them and their returns policy. The other thing I can't fathom is that the 190xprob on its own is £82.99 and with the 804rc2 head is £140.26 But the 804rc2 head on its own is...

I was looking at that one also on Amazon and couldn't really see what the difference was between this and the 190XB I compared them on the Manfrotto website and the 190xprob was more expensive but I couldn't really see why? Slight height advantage with the pro but couldn't work out the £20...

Re the avatar, it was taken at a "Waterbabies" shoot in Reigate, Surrey. Although the photographer that took it was female Fab photos! But really expensive ;-)

After reading about the abuse your Manfrotto has endured, this sounds very appealing too! Been reading reviews on Amazon and they are all positive. Now I'm really torn. To make matters worse my tutor has recommended this one also...

The avatar is my son. We go swimming regularly and recently took part in an underwater photoshoot. This was one of the pictures that was taken. Wish I could say it was me that took it but it wasn't :-)

Thanks guys. This makes more sense now. I always thought that when purchased, a tripod was the legs and the thing that attaches the camera to the tripod. I understand now that this is not the case. There are so many on the Redsnapper website. What should I be looking for?

Thank you that is very helpful :-) Do you purchase the tripod and the head separately then?

Thanks for your reply Dave. Please could I ask what is the difference between a pan tilt and a ball head?

Hi everyone, I need to get a tripod ASAP for my photography course and I haven't a clue where to start. I have learnt from reading other posts not to scrimp on a tripod which I wouldn't want to do anyway as want it to be sturdy and trust that my Canon 650d is safe. However, I have no idea...

Thanks for all the responses everyone. You have all been very helpful as always :-) It seems to make more sense to me to spend a bit more money to get the better lens as you obviously get what you pay for. Better get saving my pennies

.....between this lens http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sigma-70-300mm-f4-5-6-Macro-Canon/dp/B000AM7CJ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358512098&sr=8-1 and this lens http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-70-300mm-4-0-5-6-USM-Lens/dp/B000B84KB6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358512205&sr=8-1 I know one is Canon and...