Why not just buy a second quick release plate for your Manfrotto, then you can easily switch between the scope and the camera on the same tripod?
I intend to do this before too long, but for the other camera with the 100-400L. I hadn't thought of using the big tripod for macro work though. Probably not suitable: big and clumsy, Manfrotto 501 head is great for digiscoping,probably good for a 400mm lens, no fine for and aft adjustment for macros though. But seeing as I need to buy the second plate anyway, why not try it out? Good idea.
It's just a shame that dedicated macro flashes are so expensive...
Ha! I've stopped counting the cost. You remember that scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail? The one where the knight has been slashed to ribbons, and had all his arms and legs cut off, and while his enemy rides off into the sunset he cries out:
"It's only a flesh wound, come back and fight you coward!"
Well, that's the way my credit card feels right now.
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