{"id":813,"date":"2010-06-27T11:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T01:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-06-27T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T01:34:27","slug":"get-a-universal-tripod-quick-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/get-a-universal-tripod-quick-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a Universal Tripod Quick Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s ridiculously simple, but I love my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessops.com\/online.store\/products\/17814\/show.html\">Universal Quick Release Adapter<\/a>. I can&#8217;t find anything like it here in Australia; this one was\u00a0bought in a national chain in the\u00a0UK\u00a0called Jessops\u00a0and sent by <a href=\"http:\/\/orchardtherapies.co.uk\">kind relatives<\/a>. It&#8217;s not perfect but it does the job, making mounting and unmounting gear simple.\u00a0Since one of the key differences between cheap and pro gear is the hassle of using a coin-driven tripod screw, this is an inexpensive equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>Since the best gear is the stuff you actually have with you, buy more than one, to provide a base for each of your tripods and a top for each camera.\u00a0Then, you can easily switch between multiple supports. On a day out, I can actually carry my basic monopod and flexible Gorillapod clone (from Aldi!) and snap either to my 550D in seconds. Hugely useful and it doesn&#8217;t tie you to a particular brand of tripods.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The picture shown on the link above is incomplete, as that&#8217;s only the bottom half of the assembly. The top half stays plugged into your camera and the bottom half stays on the tripod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s ridiculously simple, but I love my Universal Quick Release Adapter. I can&#8217;t find anything like it here in Australia; this one was\u00a0bought in a national chain in the\u00a0UK\u00a0called Jessops\u00a0and sent by kind relatives. It&#8217;s not perfect but it does the job, making mounting and unmounting gear simple.\u00a0Since one of the key differences between cheap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/get-a-universal-tripod-quick-mount\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get a Universal Tripod Quick Mount<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}