Fixed Tripods
For low-angle shots particularly in cinematography, short tripods with fixed length legs and no center column may be used. The lowest of these is called a low hat, with a slightly higher version referred to as a hi hat.
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“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
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To move, but doth if th’ other do.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)