The Super Clamp: The Most Useful Piece of Grip Gear Nobody Talks About Enough

The Super Clamp: The Most Useful Piece of Grip Gear Nobody Talks About Enough

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: the gear that gets ignored in the glamour conversations is usually the gear that actually makes your shoots work. Nobody’s posting unboxing videos of clamps. Nobody’s doing a dramatic slow-motion reveal of a chunk of metal that costs thirty bucks. But ask any working photographer what piece of gear they grab constantly, and some version of a super clamp is going to come up.

The 5 Pieces of Gear You Actually Need to Shoot Time Lapse on a DSLR (No Fluff)

The 5 Pieces of Gear You Actually Need to Shoot Time Lapse on a DSLR (No Fluff)

Time lapse is one of those techniques that looks wildly technical from the outside but is actually pretty approachable once you understand what the gear is doing and why. The problem most beginners hit isn’t the photography itself. It’s showing up to a two-hour shoot, firing off 400 frames, and then discovering the footage is unusable because something in the setup wasn’t locked down. I’ve seen it happen at meetups here in Denver more times than I can count, and I’ve done it myself.