this week I'll show you why you need an L bracket for your camera and
specifically which one I got for my Sony A7iii
this is basically a bracket that fits onto your camera so with your tripod
quick-release system you can attach it in a landscape position but also a
portrait position it may seem like an unnecessary gadget to have but as soon
as I got one it made my photography experience much better one other benefit
is that it offers a little bit of protection for your camera you have this
metal piece along the bottom and along the side so if you were to ever drop
your camera it could actually save it from some damage so this is the one that
I've got for the Sony A7iii I got it off Amazon and it's a fully fitted one it
uses the arca-swiss system and I've been using this system for a while now as you
can see you have a piece here that it'll clip onto your tripod it also has this
bit on the side one thing that worried me about this l-bracket was the massive
cutout on this side to me it didn't seem like it would be that stable the reason
they've done this is because you have these three openings here so they needed
to leave this cutout to be able to have access to these ports now what I thought
was I'd be able to clamp it on this top side but what happens there is there's
actually a bit of flex because you write on the end of the l-bracket down at this
point this little piece here might not seem much but if you clamp it into the
bracket on this side you have all of this length down the
front and then you have this one point at the back so it actually triangulates
off this you can see here I can pick up my tripod with the camera if I try and
wobble it around it doesn't move at all whereas when I'm clamped to the top end
you can see here it's flexing a lot so I was pleasantly surprised with this
l-bracket I think small rig make one but it's a lot bigger it's really bulky
along the bottom but it has the full rectangle on this side I think it's got
an adjuster on the bottom so you pull it out a little bit to get to these ports
but I'd prefer something more sleek and slim like this one I wouldn't want to
put a 70 to 200 on it but then I would use the mount on the actual lens to put
that on the tripod so I'm comfortable in using the 24 to 70 with a 16 to 35 on
this and the lighter lens is like that is 25 or the 85 1.8 they're all
fine on it one other thing as well as it has a screw mount on the bottom I use a
shoulder strap and I have this point here which I attach that shoulder strap
to normally if I wasn't using the L bracket I'd have to take this off and
then put my quick-release plate on and then put it on the tripod with this I
can still slide it on the side on the tripod with this point still attached
I can then pull it back off the tripod click my shoulder strap back onto this
and I'm ready to go with it again so it really is a useful bit of kit as well as
the a 73 this will fit on the a7 r3 as well I have one for my a7 r2 and my RX
10 if you look on Amazon these L brackets are relatively cheap and
they're really good value for money whichever camera I have I always fit an
L bracket on it and I try and get one of these bespoke brackets for it it works
so much better than the universal ones so I've been using them for a long time
and I've never had an issue with it just make sure you have an ARCA Swiss system
on your tripod you can buy the quick release plates so you on my Manfrotto
ball head I swapped out the Manfrotto quick-release plate with the arca-swiss
plate and that's about it if you're into photography get an L bracket for your
camera if you look on Amazon you'll be able to find one of these custom fitted
ones for the camera that you have it'll make switching from landscape to
portrait really easy and if you use your shoulder strap you'll be able to keep
the mounting point on your camera at all times even when using a tripod as always
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