Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> >Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:52:57 -0500 >Subject: Re: Japanese "M" mount > >At 08:14 PM 9/8/97 -0400, you wrote: >>I'm still not convinced on the Gitzo. >They are much more rugged than anything bogen makes. Lighter and more >compact for the strength, too. But they are harder to use, since you have >?to twist the doohickey (that's technical talk for the thing-a-ma-bob) >rather than flip a lever. But so far, I've used bogen, Gitzo, and now have >a quite old, very nice, chrome big Tiltall. I can hold up any lens/camera >combination out there. ;-) I'm surprised I haven't heard more from this group about the Tiltall (which used to be the Leitz Tiltall. I have three of them and use them for 35mm, 6x6cm, and even for a lightweight 4x5 field camera. I have never used anything else that I liked better, including my overweight Gitzo. >>BTW: How 'bout the CIS/AOL deal. Is nothing sacred. > >As long as they keep them separate, I won't have to dump CIS. Some day, the >whole world will be owned by one company. I hope it's not AOL. I hope it's not Microsoft or Intel.