I recently bought a nice ladder (Little Giant-style) expressly for photo purposes. Primarily it is for use with my Widelux (35mm), which desperately needs rise at least 80-90% of the time (at least for my imagery). I also expect to use it with LF, first to shoot over fences and other obstructions, and maybe secondarily to get more rise than the camera provides, e.g. in narrow alleyways.
The top step of the ladder provides an adequate platform to set an LF camera down on it and take a straight shot. Of course it would be nice to have tripod head movements (as well as security and rigidity).
Has anyone tried attaching a tripod head to a ladder? Successfully? I'm also thinking that there may be a way to lash a tripod temporarily to the ladder, to make use of the head. Or maybe not... The point is I don't know that I will be using this technique often enough to want to buy and dedicate a new head to it.
TIA,
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