{"id":2523,"date":"2021-12-27T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2021-12-27T18:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:23:43","slug":"meet-the-frankentripod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2021\/meet-the-frankentripod\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the FrankenTripod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the perfect travel tripod for the man who doesn\u2019t actually like carrying a tripod? Legs from a 45 year old Slik 500g. New head from Manfrotto \u2013 lightest in the range. I did have to cut off the old head, and mount a new screw adapter which meant a bit of work for the tap and die set, but total weight is 675g and it fits neatly into the side pocket of the new bag!<\/p>\n<p>OK, I wouldn\u2019t use this with a Canon 5D and 600mm lens, but for my Panasonic G9 it\u2019s about perfect. Now, about all that money I\u2019ve donated to Messrs Gitzo and Manfrotto over the years since I bought the Slik\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the perfect travel tripod for the man who doesn\u2019t actually like carrying a tripod? Legs from a 45 year old Slik 500g. New head from Manfrotto \u2013 lightest in the range. I did have to cut off the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2021\/meet-the-frankentripod\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}