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Subject: [Leica] OT: Custom tripod collar?
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto at earthlink.net)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:06:03 -0400

James Laird wrote:

>>>
BTW, what to YOU do when you want to take a shot in portrait mode
(camera rotated vertically)? Lean up against a tree?;)
<<<

With the f/6.8 Telyts, rotate the camera mount.  With the 100 APO, 180 APO
Elmarit and 280 APO, rotate the lens in the tripod collar.  I want a
rotating tripod collar (or the Telyt's equivalent) on any long lens I use,
preferably built-in like the 280 APO, not an add-on.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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