Tip 1

Small “tabletop” tripods (sometimes called “tablepods” or mini tripods) are used in situations where a full sized tripod would be too bulky to carry and situations like macro home studio. It can easily be inclined right, left, up and down.

Tip 2

Maximum high varies from 100 to 256 cm.
The cheap tripods, generally made of aluminum tubing with an attached head and rubber feet. The head flips sideways 90 degrees for portrait and landscape and are easy to carry due to their lightweight. Oh, actually there are some tripods even cheaper because they come without heads (pro models).
More expensive tripods come with swappable heads and optional spiked feet for rough ground, and usually feature “fluid” heads (fluid head controls the horizontal position of the tripod). Also easy to carry, it’s my recommendation for the flexible use it allows.
The most expensive tripods of all are wooden tripods designed for use with film-based movie cameras and studio still cameras.

Tip 3

You can consider expensive carbon fiber tripods, used for applications where the tripod needs to be lightweight if you go seriously into photo-business.

Tip 4

Some tripods feature integrated remote controls to control a camera; these are usually made by the company that built the camera.

Tip 5

In winter the aluminium legs can get very cold so make sure you have a tripodbag (some tripods come with it).

Conclusion: no matter what you choose, it should be steady, lightweight and easy to mount in a hurry.

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Secure Digital Card (SD)
Compact Flash (CF)
Multi Media Card (MMC)
xD-Picture Card (xD)
MiniSD Card
MicroSD Card
USB flash drive
Memory Stick
SmartMedia

MMC is about the size of a postage stamp: 24 mm x 32 mm x 1.5 mm, compatible with SD cards. Basic cards, high-speed cards and high-end cards have speeds up to 150x or even higher! (Incredible, right?) Some digital cameras require high-speed cards to record video smoothly or capture multiple still photographs in rapid succession.

SD cards typically have higher data transfer rates, but this is always changing, particularly in light of recent improvements to the MMC (MultiMediaCard) standard. As of 2006, SD card capacities range from 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and 512 MB, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 GB.

MiniSD cards are currently produced in capacities ranging from 16 MB to 4 GB. MicroSD is currently the smallest memory card format commercially available (15 mm x 11 mm x 0.7 mm) and available in capacities from 128 MB through 2 GB.

XD is a type of memory storage developed for digital cameras only (transferring from the xD card to computer only by plugging the camera into the PC) in a small variety: from 256 MB to 2 GB, but they are faster and have a low power consumption.

CF cards can be used directly in PC Card slot with a plug adapter, generally available in capacities from about 32 MB to about 32 GB.

With a Memory Stick (typically a small box that connects via USB or some other serial connection), a user could copy the pictures taken with the digital camera off to his computer.

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