monopod

The standard support for long-lens aviation work: it takes the weight of a 500mm during an hour at a fence and still lets the camera pan and tilt to follow an aircraft, which a tripod head does not. It damps vertical shake and does nothing for horizontal, which is the right trade for panning.

Nearby in Photography

• long exposure — An exposure long enough for movement to record as a trail or a smear.
• metering — The camera's measurement of scene brightness, used to choose an exposure.
• neutral density filter — A filter that cuts light evenly across the spectrum, without altering colour.
• noise — Random variation in an image that is not part of the scene, seen as grain or coloured speckle.