Arca Swiss type Brackets

I am having difficulty visualising these. Photos?

Definitely! But I will have to look to see how this is organised on my clamps. (It is early here for me!)

It has to be said that, while there are lots of tripod manufacturers, few of them bother much abaout the interface between tripod and camera.

The L-bracket I use for my Leica only has an openng in the groove at one end. This helps. Also, the adapters that I have by Rogeti have locating pins in the clamps.

I shall return later with pictures.

David

I've gone for Arca mounts everywhere with smallrig brackets on all my cameras. I slide the camera into the mount and then tighten a screw. There's no way it can come out. It's much easier than screwing a mount on the bottom of the camera and then clicking it into place.

Actually, from your pictures above, it has stops in both vertical and horizontal modes, but only at one end of the travel. The JJC adaptor that I use with my Leica has the same, but only holds the camera in landscape mode.

The Rogeti adaptors, of which I have quite a collection, use pins in slots to prevent movement. Their stuff is superbly machined.

I use this to hold my Laowa shift lens. There is an excellent review here.

David