[Leica] Re: Speaking of tripods

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Well, tripods are digital in a way that many things are digital. It's 
an either or thing; 0's or 1's. Either they support what they're 
intended to support, or they fall over.

I also now have 5 Gitzo tripods after I got rid of some. And they all 
hold up the things they're intended to hold up and sometimes more.

I have a 509 with long columns, which I use for shooting over 
unphotogenic objects in the city that get in the way, so I need an 8' 
stepladder to complement it. I once had this set up on a busy 
sidewalk downtown with a Sinar-p 4x5 on top, bag with accessories 
hanging off the bottom of the column when someone, accidentally I 
believe, ran into the stepladder and knocked it over. I grabbed the 
tripod and slid down one of the legs. Fortunately it was set up 
properly and had no trouble handling the extra load.

It's not a hiking tripod.



At 1:08 PM -0500 1/15/09, David Rodgers wrote:
>Richard,
>
>I never met a Gitzo I didn't like. I have 5 tri's and 2 mono's. The
>problem with having too many tripods is that you need a head for each
>one.
>
>OTOH, the nice thing about tripods is that they'll probably never be
>replaced by a digital version. Thus, they hold their value.
>
>I half expect someone to send a link to a digital tripod. If so, I'm
>curious what it will look like.
>
>They should have called IS DT for digital tripod. There's digital
>everything :-)
>
>DaveR
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Man [mailto:richard.lists@gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:34 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Speaking of tripods
>
>I had the Magic for years- until it was broken by a klutz who said he
>will
>pay for the replacement and then disappeared from the scene :-(
>
>It was great for its size and weight but sturdy it was not...
>
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Alastair Firkin
><afirkin@afirkin.com>wrote:
>
>>  For travel, I found the unique "flat" tri/monopod from Cullman was
>very
>>  useful. Called the "magic" it was an unusual design that when collaped
>>  became a flat rectangle. I used to put it in a waterproof pouch and it
>could
>>  sit at the bottom of a bag.
>>
>>  Not completely sturdy, its "strength" was the shape, but it held light
>film
>>  slr's and M's ok. Even Rollei's TLR's
>>
>>  Cheers
>>
>>  alastair
>>
>
>--
>// richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
>// b: http://rfman.wordpress.com
>
>
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