Finding a Tripod with a Landscape Mount?
I don't understand.Shouldn't most tripods sell landscape mounts (so you can mount your dslr vertically instead of horizontally)? I have a very cheap tripod right now, but I will get another soon. And I want it to have this feature, because not having it is very frustrating.
So any suggestions of models would be helpful.
(i have a nikon d3000)
Just about any 3-way tripod head allows you to flip. Your camera over into portrait and back to landscape.
Terminology:
Horizontal= Landscape
Vertical= Portrait
Portrait mode is something that can be accomplished with either the tripod center column or the head (or both).It is a feature you have to look (and pay) for. Both my tripod and head are capable of portrait mode (as is the tripod collar on some of my lenses).
Landscape pictures are more commonly horizontal, but you can change just the head, if the tripod is strong enough,
http://www.google.com/...d=0CDkQrQQ
There are also panoramic stands,
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/...orama.html
And most of the tripods allows any camera position; here you have some,
http://www.manfrotto.com/category/8374.58969.0.0.0/Tripods
First of all, you have your terms backwards. When the camera is mounted vertically, it is PORTRAIT orientation. When mounted horizontally, it is LANDSCAPE orientation.
I frankly do not know what kind of tripods you have seen, but even the cheapest junk I have ever bought at a place such as Walmart allowed to camera to be mounted in either position. Just turn a knob or lever to unlock the base onto which the camera mounts and flip it to the vertical position. The only tripod that usually will not allow that is the tiny table top tripods, but they are not designed to support a DSLR anyway.
Are you sure you are looking at / using a tripod with a head attached? Many tripods come as legs only. You purchase the head separately, which most certainly will allow the camera to mount in any position. I suppose you could though, mount the camera directly onto the screw that is supposed to be the mount for the head. If you mount the camera directly to the screw on the tripod legs, you are using it totally wrong.
In over 30 years of using cameras and tripods, I have never heard of a "landscape mount". I think somehow you are not understanding what a tripod HEAD is and how to use it.