They should be compulsory. Manfrotto for a long time used a custom plate design of its own, which doesn’t fit other tripod heads. And while Arca Swiss style plates have become a new standard among ...

and highly functional tripod are great investments as well. To look at the last example here a bit more, may we present the new Manfrotto 055 and 190 ARCA-Swiss and fluid head systems as great ...