The Accessories That Matter

Tripods, filters and other handy extras for enhancing your photography

By The Editors

Tripod Heads
Outdoor photographers tend to use three types of tripod heads. Most popular are ballheads because they allow you to quickly position the camera as desired by loosening a single knob and then locking it there by tightening that knob. Three-way pan-tilt heads let you adjust each axis separately. Below we show three-way heads from Manfrotto (www.bogenimaging.us) and Slik (www.thkphoto.com). Tripod makers like Flashpoint (www.adorama.com), Giottos (www.hpmarketingcorp.com), Gitzo (www.bogenimaging.us), Manfrotto (www.bogenimaging.us) and Novoflex (www.hpmarketingcorp.com) all make top-quality ballheads. Other manufacturers like Acratech (www.acratech.net), Arca-Swiss (www.precisioncameraworks.com), Kirk Enterprises (www.kirkphoto.com) and Really Right Stuff (www.reallyrightstuff.com) also offer some outstanding ballhead models.

Kirk Enterprises BH-1

Arca-Swiss Z1

Flashpoint F-3

Novoflex Ball 40

Gitzo GH2780 QR

Giottos MH 7002

Manfrotto 804 RC-2

Really Right Stuff BH-55

Slik SH-806E

Acratech Ultimate

Bird photographers who use gimbal heads often choose those from Custom Brackets (www.custombrackets.com), Jobu (www.jobu-design.com), Kirk (www.kirkphoto.com) and Wimberley (www.tripodhead.com). Gimbal heads make it possible to pan a long lens in any direction to track a moving subject while providing the support of a solid tripod.

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All of the recommended items are great, but I find three, practically free accessories that I wouldn't be without. (1) A shower cap, the type you get in many motels - it weighs nothing and is a GREAT emergency camera cover in the rain. (2) A shiny "Space Blanket". It's light weight, can be used as a rain cover or ground blanket and it's reflective surface can serve as a reflector. (3) Large black garbage bags - again they weigh nothing, can serve as an emergency rain cover for you and your camera gear or to kneel on wet ground. Not everything that's useful needs to cost alot.

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