At a recently received as a birthday present BENRO Tripod along with ball head is certainly a quick release plate makes sense, especially if two cameras come in exchange for use. At the FUJIFILM X-E1 the threaded hole for a tripod is so stupid designed so that the otherwise customary Wecheslplatten cover flap for battery and memory card to a third. Every visit there means unscrewing the removable disk, which is annoying. The here offered additional element but enables anytime access to all the openings of the camera and also has the very nice side effect that once aligned tripod for vertical shooting should not be changed, because the quick-release plate quasi 90 ° is around the corner, solve camera, reposition That's it! Here the designer has thought practical! Good thing !!!