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Today I purchased a
Manfrotto L-Bracket MS050M4-Q2. I had
been contemplating this for awhile. |
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The reason for the purchase was to provide
the ability to fairly easily switch from
landscape mode to portrait mode when using a
ball head on my tripod. With the standard
adapter plate, one had to loosen the ball,
make sure the tripod was orientated so that
you could rotate the camera and "hit" one of
the slots in the ball head. After managing
that, the camera was off to one side and was
a bit "tippy" as the camera was not over the
center of the tripod.
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The L-bracket comes with an adaptor plate
attached to each side of the L. To switch
orientations, you loosen the adapter plate
attaching the camera and the ball head,
rotate the camera 90 degrees and attach the
other adaptor plate to the ball head. The
camera will always be located over the
centerline of the tripod and not be tippy. |
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Works great! |
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Note: |
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The only downside is that you must remove to
L-Plate from the camera in order to have
access to the battery compartment for
recharging. I find that if you loosen the
attachment screw just a bit, you can rotate
the bracket to allow access. That way you
don't have to go through the initial
adjustment process each time you charge your
battery. |
