Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:34 PM 07/01/00 +0100, you wrote: >>>>>The wood and carbon fiber tripods allegedly absorb the vibration >> better >> or quicker than metal<<< > >That makes a lot of sense! While I was still shooting 16mm news footage I >once replaced my wooden tripod with the latest Japanese aluminum one, but >soon realized my mistake. My Arriflex BL remained silent, but the aluminum >tripod sang a very irritating song thru the whole shoot. The cameraīs >otherwise unnoticable vibrations was picked up and increased by the tripod. >Wood and carbon tripods donīt give you that problem. > There's a lot more to this than the type of material used to make the tripod. I don't want to get into the physics of sympathetic vibrations, resonance and so on. Suffice it to say for now that the tripod _design_ is much more important than the material used in construction.