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Tripods & camera supports




One of the most-useful accessories you can buy is a tripod. A good, stable tripod provides a solid support for your camera, opening up a whole new world of slow shutter photography to you. Long time exposures that can't be taken sharply when hand-holding your camera become a matter of course with a tripod. You will be able to use very slow films for great image quality, employ small apertures for maximum depth of field at slow shutter speeds, and capture scenes where the light is so low that an exposure takes several seconds or even minutes.

A tripod should be considered as an essential accessory, one you will use over and over again.

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