Optex T465 shoe Nikon BR-3 adapter ring

Nikon BR-3 adapter ring

pressing priorities

Convenient zoom range with an effective image stabilizer- nothing too fancy

bright viewfinder and a reasonably effective lightmeter

Optex T465 shoe Nikon BR-3 adapter ringThe Optex T465 is what you might optimistically call a video tripod: it has a video style head with fluid tilt and not quite as fluid but better than nothing pan functionality; the camera platform can be tilted up to 90 degrees for those cool Dutch angles that all the German expressionist kids are talking about these days. Nothing here is extremely solid there's a lot of plastic but this tripod should be enough for a smaller camera.