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A friend once said that I am good at welding because I am so doddery with my hands, I manage a natural weave when I weld without even trying!
A moving flower and doddery hands are not a good recipe for sharp photography so I try to remove one of the ingredients of shake by employing a tripod for static subjects like flowers and astro photography which together seem to comprise the majority of my photography.
As for the 'L' bracket, as Geoff says people who use tripods and regularly switch between landscape and portrait orientation find the 'L' bracket indispensable. A good friend of mine probably invented the principle when he cut an Arca Swiss rail in two and drilled and tapped holes to bolt the two parts together into an L shape. The camera accessory industry leapt upon the idea and it became an 'essential' accessory, as it is almost guaranteed to make the user look like a 'professional'!
While I have toyed with the idea, I use the Manfrotto rectangular dovetail mount for my cameras, only use Arca Swiss for specific applications like my pano head, in addition I try to avoid upright framing as much as possible so I don't see an 'L' bracket as a useful addition to my gear.
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Robert.