{"id":5022,"date":"2011-06-22T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2011-06-23T06:28:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:28:57","slug":"forest-trail-southeast-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/forest-trail-southeast-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Trail, Southeast Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trail through the forest, near Skagway, Southeast Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a photo that I shot on the\u00a0Laughton Glacier<\/a> during my trip down to Skagway last week. This relatively short outing was a great opportunity for me to test out the new\u00a0Manfrotto 732CY Carbon Fiber Tripod<\/a>, which I’m quickly learning to love. The thing is light enough that I just carried it by hand during the entire hike, and in fact pretty much during most of my three day assignment down there.<\/p>\n

When I don’t feel like holding it, I simply drop one of the tripod legs down in between my backpack shoulder strap and my body where it sits like some kind of a scabbard. I’ve used that method with my ice axe quite often when I don’t want to carry it, but don’t feel like strapping it to my pack.<\/p>\n

The 732CY is light enough that this method works pretty well.\u00a0However, sometimes the backpack strap can get wedged a little to tightly in the joint of the tripod leg and it takes a bit of fiddling to get it out. Maybe there’s a way to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m finding this tripod plenty sturdy for most uses, especially with smaller lenses, like the 24mm. I’m also really psyched on the\u00a0Giottos MH1302 Quick Release Ball Head<\/a> that I stuck on the 732. As I mentioned in\u00a0my initial review<\/a>, the thing just feels really solid and it adjusts very smoothly with it’s triple friction knobs. And the knob on the QR plate makes a very nice handle for carrying the tripod down at your side.<\/p>\n

Although I like the first shot above, I think I like this cropped horizontal version even better. It just seems to have a better sense of balance. What do you think? So, did I shoot a real horizontal when I was out there? Um… no. Why not? Sorry, couldn’t tell you, maybe I was in a hurry to get out to the glacier. Should I have? Yep, but sometimes you just forget that stuff when you’re out there in the field, even when you’ve been at for as long as I have.<\/p>\n

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The Manfrotto 732CY in action!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo that I shot on the\u00a0Laughton Glacier during my trip down to Skagway last week. This relatively short outing was a great opportunity for me to test out the new\u00a0Manfrotto 732CY Carbon Fiber Tripod, which I’m quickly learning to love. The thing is light enough that I just carried it by hand during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,311,98,291,89,149,171,258],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}