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Thanks for sharing this Doug. I can see this would be a useful replacement for the L-bracket that I currently use, which prevents access to the various connectors on the left of my D750. I'm seriously considering becoming a backer.
 
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It seems interesting for some.

I already own a tripod collar for my 300 PF and one comes with my Nikon 200/4 macro. Also, this device does not work with the Z9 or cameras with battery grips. Thus, I'll stick with L-brackets and tripod collars for now.
 
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Although it certainly looks interesting, as others have said it looks like a solution in search of a problem when almost all long lenses come with a rotating tripod collar and many of us always keep an L-bracket on our cameras. It will certainly add weight for anyone who considers weight a problem and is just another potential point of failure that could drop a camera to the ground.
 
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Doug, thank you for posting this. I much prefer this product to a L bracket designed for a specific camera body as you do not have to remove the camera from the ball head to change its orientation. Assuming its build quality is good to excellent, I would buy it over an L bracket and/or a arca swiss body plate for a camera.

I have a Z9 and have not yet bought a L bracket for it. As others have posted, this product will not work on a Z9 as it has a built in battery holder.
 
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DougC said:
This looks to be an interesting item and idea to me. I’m thinking it will be useful with both my 300PF and 105 micro. Your thoughts?
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ATOLL | flexible solution for camera angle adjustment

Specially designed for landscape photographers, allowing users to quickly adjust the camera angle on a tripod.
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It's interesting. At first glance I was with the folks that thought it's a solution in search of a need as L brackets work fine. The more I look at it the more interesting I think it is as an alternative to an L bracket as you don't have to remove and refit the camera the way we do with L brackets. I was thinking this would be handy for astro photography work where fumbling around in the dark with L brackets isn't great and for use with my macro lenses where I'm working in close and a simple lens rotation would be quicker and easier with less shift to the center of composition than swapping the L bracket orientation.

Seems like a reasonably clever product that's an alternative to an L bracket and gives the same easy rotation from landscape to portrait mode as lenses with rotating tripod collars but for shorter focal length lenses that lack those rotating collars.

I guess the parts I don't love about it is swapping it on and off when switching from shorter lenses to lenses that do have good built in tripod collars and that it doesn't fit larger bodies like my D5 or something like a Z9 or gripped D850.
 
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DRwyoming said:
It's interesting. At first glance I was with the folks that thought it's a solution in search of a need as L brackets work fine. The more I look at it the more interesting I think it is as an alternative to an L bracket as you don't have to remove and refit the camera the way we do with L brackets. I was thinking this would be handy for astro photography work where fumbling around in the dark with L brackets isn't great and for use with my macro lenses where I'm working in close and a simple lens rotation would be quicker and easier with less shift to the center of composition than swapping the L bracket orientation.

Seems like a reasonably clever product that's an alternative to an L bracket and gives the same easy rotation from landscape to portrait mode as lenses with rotating tripod collars but for shorter focal length lenses that lack those rotating collars.

I guess the parts I don't love about it is swapping it on and off when switching from shorter lenses to lenses that do have good built in tripod collars and that it doesn't fit larger bodies like my D5 or something like a Z9 or gripped D850.
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Ahhh…great minds! As I said in my original post, I plan on using it with the AF-S 105 and the 300PF, both of which are very front heavy on a ML body. I also have a Z50 and the 50-250 is also very front heavy. As you pointed out, there are trade offs but I think for my purposes it will serve me well.
 
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