Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:55 AM 11/15/00 -0800, you wrote: >Now the rant..... if you can knock 3 pounds off the weight of a tripod set >of legs using carbon fiber, why can't some intelligent engineer make a >similar reduction in the weight of a tripod head? The things are made from >steel. A change to aluminum would seem better, and titanium, better yet! Check out the new line of Gitzos, which are made of magnesium. They're not precisely *light*, but they're about a pound or so lighter than the old Gitzos, which themselves were lighter than the comparable Bogen heads. DC