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      12-31-2020, 01:32 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by longm1985 View Post
What tripods are you guys using? I find my Manfrotto 055XPROB4 I grabbed for $5 at a church rummage sale (yes, really, and no, I didn't talk them down from anywhere) with a super sturdy ball head I got in a bag of camera stuff from eBay (it's from amvona.com, which isn't a thing anymore) to be all sorts of stable when I've used a Sigma 150-600 Sports. No wobble, fine tuning was easy.
I have a bunch of tripods, including some beefy ones. It's the ball head that was giving me fits the other day. But I didn't have the time to swap it out with my heavy duty head. The planets would have been out of sight by the time I did.
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