Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: aluminium pods and cold hands (was:Leica lenses & Group Professionals Responsibility?)
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 05:42:15 -0600

At 06:47 PM 22/02/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Go to a good sporting good store and pick up either some bicycle handlebar
>tape, some tennis racket tape, or something similar.  Lowrey makes a grip
>and support tape which can be wrapped around the tripod leg and then
>secured with a round strip of tape at each end.  It does fray after time
>though, which is something that good tennis racket or bicycle handlebar
>tape doesn't do.  Also, instead of using electrical tape, try Renfrew tape,
>if you can find it.  It has the same semi-gloss appearance of electrical
>tape, but it doesn't shrink with time in the heat the way electrical tape
>does.
>
I forgot to mention ... leave one leg free in case you decide to use a leg
clamp for macro or telephoto work.