Tripod That Shoots Straight Down
What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
nomnomnom • Regular Member • Posts: 489
What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
Jun 19, 2017
I'm looking to shoot photos and videos that look completely down to the ground at a perpendicular angle. Right now I have a tripod ball head that can tilt but it doesn't point directly down, and even if it did, it would take the tripod legs into the shot.
I'm thinking of buying something that sticks out the camera like this:
https://www.edelkrone.com/p/236/flextilt-head-2
But if I have a head like that, I'm not sure the tripod would be staple if it sticking out so far.
What kind of equipment do I need that lets me do this?
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hotdog321 • Forum Pro • Posts: 21,035
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
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That should work. Many tripods have a reversible center column that allows you to shoot straight down between the tripod legs. Another approach is to use a SuperClamp attached to a pipe or tripod leg to shoot at whatever angle pleases you.
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Boomanbb • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,044
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
hotdog321 wrote:
That should work. Many tripods have a reversible center column that allows you to shoot straight down between the tripod legs. Another approach is to use a SuperClamp attached to a pipe or tripod leg to shoot at whatever angle pleases you.
Don't forget to add a counterweight to the other end.
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walnorth • Regular Member • Posts: 255
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
nomnomnom wrote:
I'm looking to shoot photos and videos that look completely down to the ground at a perpendicular angle. Right now I have a tripod ball head that can tilt but it doesn't point directly down, and even if it did, it would take the tripod legs into the shot.
I'm thinking of buying something that sticks out the camera like this:
https://www.edelkrone.com/p/236/flextilt-head-2
But if I have a head like that, I'm not sure the tripod would be staple if it sticking out so far.
What kind of equipment do I need that lets me do this?
Assuming you don't want the tripod in the view, a boom arm or construct a small set. I'd use Combitube to make the set. More information like lighting, size of subject, portability, etc., would be helpful. If you use an arm off a tripod, counterweight it. You don't want the tripod and camera tipping over. Use a remote release, something like the Sony app for the a7x series would be good because you could view and focus from a tablet and the release from the tablet wouldn't shake the camera.
Using the flextilt head would not clear the tripod. Doing video with a slider between two tripods would probably work with the flextilt head.
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OP nomnomnom • Regular Member • Posts: 489
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
In reply to walnorth • Jun 20, 2017
walnorth wrote:
Using the flextilt head would not clear the tripod. Doing video with a slider between two tripods would probably work with the flextilt head.
don
why do you say the flextilt would not clear the tripod, what does it mean?
deanimator • Contributing Member • Posts: 719
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
I bought a Vanguard Alta Pro tripod specifically because the center column can be reconfigured to be parallel (and set to other angles) to the ground.
OP nomnomnom • Regular Member • Posts: 489
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
deanimator wrote:
I bought a Vanguard Alta Pro tripod specifically because the center column can be reconfigured to be parallel (and set to other angles) to the ground.
interesting product! But how do you keep it from tipping over?
afoton • Senior Member • Posts: 1,787
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
deanimator wrote:
I bought a Vanguard Alta Pro tripod specifically because the center column can be reconfigured to be parallel (and set to other angles) to the ground.
There also are lateral arms that will fit every tripod:
https://www.berlebach.de/?bereich=details&id=65&sprache=english
http://www.feisol.net/heads/feisol-horizontal-adapter-pb-90ha-kit.html
http://www.feisol.net/heads/feisol-horizontal-adapter-vh-60ha-kit.html
and probably several others.
To answer the original question, repro coloumns are made for downwards photography.
deanimator • Contributing Member • Posts: 719
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
nomnomnom wrote:
deanimator wrote:
I bought a Vanguard Alta Pro tripod specifically because the center column can be reconfigured to be parallel (and set to other angles) to the ground.
interesting product! But how do you keep it from tipping over?
As I believe somebody else pointed out, you have to counterweight it. There's a hook in the end of the center column, that can be used to hang a weight, either in the normal orientation or in the oblique.
I haven't used mine much that way for the simple reason that most of my photography is studio macro in my living room.
I have the misfortune to live in a pit of an apartment with floors so springy that when the camera is on the tripod set up for macro, there's visible movement between camera and subject when I shift my weight from one foot to the other. No tripod can fix that. I was forced to mount the ballhead directly to the work table. Were it not for that, I would be using the tripod.
deanimator • Contributing Member • Posts: 719
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
In reply to afoton • Jun 21, 2017
afoton wrote:
deanimator wrote:
I bought a Vanguard Alta Pro tripod specifically because the center column can be reconfigured to be parallel (and set to other angles) to the ground.
There also are lateral arms that will fit every tripod:
https://www.berlebach.de/?bereich=details&id=65&sprache=english
http://www.feisol.net/heads/feisol-horizontal-adapter-pb-90ha-kit.html
http://www.feisol.net/heads/feisol-horizontal-adapter-vh-60ha-kit.html
and probably several others.
I've also seen DIY solutions on YouTube and elsewhere.
To answer the original question, repro coloumns are made for downwards photography.
If I'm not mistaken, I've seen at least one DIY that involved using it parallel to the ground. It's just a question of how handy and imaginative you are.
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
deanimator wrote:
nomnomnom wrote:
deanimator wrote:
I bought a Vanguard Alta Pro tripod specifically because the center column can be reconfigured to be parallel (and set to other angles) to the ground.
interesting product! But how do you keep it from tipping over?
As I believe somebody else pointed out, you have to counterweight it.
You can also set the back leg to one step wider than the front two leg as shown below. There is a lot of weight hanging there, the bag and its contents weigh 15 pounds alone.
Thank you
Russell
deanimator • Contributing Member • Posts: 719
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
Russell Evans wrote:
deanimator wrote:
nomnomnom wrote:
deanimator wrote:
I bought a Vanguard Alta Pro tripod specifically because the center column can be reconfigured to be parallel (and set to other angles) to the ground.
interesting product! But how do you keep it from tipping over?
As I believe somebody else pointed out, you have to counterweight it.
You can also set the back leg to one step wider than the front two leg as shown below. There is a lot of weight hanging there, the bag and its contents weigh 15 pounds alone.
Thank you
Russell
Basically what's being done there is to emulate an old style machine gun tripod.
I did something similar with my tripod when I had it on my macro table, but given the lack of working space and danger of it slipping off the table, I gave up and mounted the ballhead directly to the table. On the ground, that should be fine.
nomnomnom wrote:
I'm looking to shoot photos and videos that look completely down to the ground at a perpendicular angle. Right now I have a tripod ball head that can tilt but it doesn't point directly down, and even if it did, it would take the tripod legs into the shot.
I'm thinking of buying something that sticks out the camera like this:
https://www.edelkrone.com/p/236/flextilt-head-2
But if I have a head like that, I'm not sure the tripod would be staple if it sticking out so far.
What kind of equipment do I need that lets me do this?
I can tilt the camera 90 degrees with the ball-head and at 60mm (equivalent), I can't see the legs.
At wide angle I might have to have the camera as much as 3 feet away from the center of the tripod.
What are you photographing on the floor that you need to be at that height and focal length ?
Seedeich • Senior Member • Posts: 2,994
Re: What do I need to be able to shoot completely downwards?
You could get a piece of square pipe, something like 30x30mm, and mount it with two Super Clamps on two tripods.
Then mount the camera with another Super Clamp with ballhead onto the pipe.
Stable, easy to access the camera and you have all the space you need below the camera.
If you don't have two tripods, you can also let one end of the pipe rest on a table, ladder or anything else stable. Lightstands are not stable enough for camera support - they can sway.
I recommend to use a square profile instead of round, because it's easier to deal with the torque if you use a heavy camera.
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