Australia Day Is Coming - Buy A Tripod

Where's your patriotism? Did this country become great without the tripod? Of course not! Now do your duty!

Ahem. Just trying out my Sam Kekovich mask. It seems to work - I feel like a lamb chop.

The real point of this is to suggest you come in and get a tripod for Australia Day. If you are going to go shoot surfers at sunset with a six hundred millimetre lens you might consider a heavy-duty model from Manfrotto, Cullmann, or Gitzo. But if you are just going to capture the fireworks with a mirror-less or small DSLR consider a small tripod from Velbon, Inca, or Haldex.

We got 'em - stocks in for the Christmas rush. They're inexpensive - $ 50 - and they're light to carry. But they have a surprising steadiness with these smaller cameras and are compact enough to pop into the boot of your car - and stay there forever.

Bonus: they make useful fighting tripods if the bogans watching fireworks on the foreshore get out of hand. Do take your camera off the top and put it away in a safe place and then just get out there and wade into them.