Take More Benefit with Monopod
Monopods are not a substitute but rather a complement to tripods.
Monopods allow photographers, used properly, even with medium telephoto lenses, blur-free images down to 1/30sec, even limited to record 1/15sek. (Assuming an appropriately motionless motive …) Excellent monopod can be used in conjunction with long, heavy telephoto lenses. They liberate the photographer from the weight can not be underestimated, thereby enabling images with shutter speeds that would certainly shake without a tripod and let the photographer the flexibility to be able to react to unforeseen situations. Not for nothing are monopods to the “must have” equipment for sports and wildlife photographers.
Monopods connect directly to a camera or a telephoto lens with a tripod mount is less than optimal. Considerably easier it is to better combine a monopod with a small ball or head, with long lenses with tripod collar, a head tilt as the 234 or Manfotto Manfrotto 234 RC (with quick-change adapter). A cheap, robust, compact and very sturdy (even with heavy equipment as a 2.8 / 300mm) monopod is eg. Manfrotto Neotec Monopod or for futher information, you can searching manfrotto monopod review by google.
The Monopods are (generally speaking) in two versions:
Either the leg segments with a lever or a screw (eg Manfrotto) or by “coupling nuts” (eg Monostat, Gitzo) clamped.
Both have advantages and disadvantages.
By a lever or screw clamping the leg segments, the leg extension can be fast, even-handed, adjustable (eg when the camera high to swing a landscape or to sit / kneel), the above screw the monopod to make somewhat cumbersome during transport.
Monopods with “nuts” are much more compact, but can not extract the easy and quick to adjust.
Monopod as a stabilizer
Monopods can be used not even sold. In this case, a (not too light and rigid as possible) without the ball or monopod tilt head screwed directly to camera or lens and extended to a medium length shot, is freehand.
The effect is to stabilize the camera by increased torque on two of three axes, only the vertical axis (which runs through the tripod) retains its normal torque. This stabilization is similar in effect to stabilize the “horizontal panning”, which can also be selected during image stabilizers: While turning the camera to the accompaniment of the motif is slightly reduced, the tipping vertical and shake significantly. This gives an inexpensive and yet effective image stabilizer.