I love photography...

[Curt]

The lens is just a 55-300 with macro extension tubes attached... More recently I was using my 35mm f1.8G as it made it a lot easier to handle and gave sharper results. The downside being I had to be much closer and you can only focus by moving the whole camera. With a zoom lens, you can use the zoom to focus as well which helps.

The ball mounts were a nightmare to find, I ended up buying 2 mini tripods to steal them from. You can find them easily on Amazon, it's just cheap ones are shite. I only used them once, since then I ran without them as there were too many places to move/come out of adjustment.

So it's basically just a Manfrotto 330B now, the speedlights I use offer enough adjustment for me.

Here's the tripod: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cullmann-Magnesi...ann+tripod (gone up £3 since I got them).

Very handy little tripod actually, I kept one and gave the other to my Mum.

Here's the mount:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manfrotto-330B-M...rotto+330b