 Hi, my name's Lynn, I'm a volunteer here at CTV, and we're putting together a set of short videos on how to set up the field camera equipment. In this particular segment, we're going to focus on the tripod, which is a major piece of equipment that helps you get a steady shot when you go out into the field. I'm going to be demonstrating that with the largest tripod that we currently have here at CTV, our TL1 tripod. And the first thing you want to do once you get out in the field and want to start setting up is take the tripod out of the camera, out of its case, and you do that by unzipping it all the way down and then carefully lifting it out and setting the case aside. Then pop it out like this. This is a split leg tripod, which basically you go through here. You lift it up to a usable height, or the height that's close to where you want to be using it, making sure the legs are down. Now the first thing you want to do is to level the tripod, and we do this by adjusting this knob right here. We come in here and we loosen it, and that allows the head to move. We can line up the level bubble into the bullseye. Then once again, once it's level, we can then tighten it up, and our camera will be level. Now this is a split leg tripod, where you be able to just the different, you know, if the ground is on level where you're at, you can have different lengths of different legs and then still adjust the level of the head via here. Now the next thing we'd want to do is put the handle on the tripod. The handle for this tripod is stored in a small bag inside the case. We pull it out, and it just screws in, but it can screw in on either side. It can go on this side, or it can go on this side, though most people put it on the right hand side. Here on that end of the handle is a serrated faceplate, which matches up to one on the head of the tripod. We attach the handle to the tripod by screwing it in until they match. Then we can adjust the handle to the position that we want it to take, and we can also adjust the angle of the handle, depending upon how we feel best to use it when operating the camera. Once we've decided upon that angle, we can tighten it down to where we can use the handle to move it up and down, neither in tilt or in pan. You're filming whatever you're filming out in the field.