Tripods are near essential for shots in the dark — but of course, in the dark, you can’t actually see your tripod. That’s why Platypod built a screen and an electronic level into the Platyball Elite, ...

Four years in the making, the Acadalus tripod head uses motors and an inclinometer to relieve you of fiddling and make sure your shots are absolutely, positively straight. Of course, that perspectival ...

So what’s the point of a quick-release plate? It seems obvious enough, doesn’t it: you attach the plate to the base of the camera and, from there on, you can quickly clip the camera to the tripod and ...

A good tripod head can cost you several thousand dollars, but this one isn’t just hand-made and high-quality. It’s freaking robotic. Well, maybe robotic isn’t the right term, but the Acadalus uses a ...

While a portable tripod is an essential piece of photography gear, adjusting each of its legs to get the camera horizontally level can be a hassle. Benro's Theta tripod addresses that problem, with ...

We review the Sachtler Akttiv8 tripod head, a system that promises to make your setups quicker and easier than ever. Grip gear is one of the last bastions of real engineering. Tripods and fluid heads ...