When I ask to a discharged infantry, "What a Rifle gun menas while you were in a strategy action?" He replies, "It is the only way of survival!". But for a rifle gun with me at hand in the operation, I must avoid it and run about away from the enemy's range. In another words, Rifle Gun is the only armer to make me feel strong and bramb in the field.
There are several photographic camera tripod manufacturers that also produces military machine gun supporting mount. SLIK is the company equivalents to the manufacturer in Japan. As we know, stout and solid supporting is indispensable for machine-gun operation, otherwise Hit rate would be reduced, hard, heavy, stout and strong are the character to be required for long barrel gun.
As for photo shooting with long focus lens on, the situation resembles with gun support on Earth, do you think? Here, gun is camera and amor is pic we shoot. The stouter the support is, the better score of the shooting result. Consequently, also camera and lens supporting structure should be sturdy AMAP.
Most of the photographer desire more stout tripod with the least weight, so supporting legs made of Carbon Fiber material have been utilized recently. In the windy scenery mas-stabilizer is required on the bottom of tripod for the countermeasure. Also, carbon fiber material needs some period of time to suppress vibration because of it's innate physical property, too strong toughness.
I prefer aluminum alloy material for tripod as a matter of fact.
Recently, sophisticated technology for anti-camera-shake has been progressed as to cover 5 step down to lower shutter speed and even 300 mm long focus lens can be hold by hand. Not a few photographer with week intention deserted a heavy tripod defeated by the temptation by Satan.
We must remember that the difference between camera body anti-camarashake system and Tripod supporting if the pics are enlarged at actual pixels ratio.
Former method never exceeds conventional mechanical Tripod at all!
