Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/28

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Subject: [Leica] Wooden tripods
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Sun Oct 28 17:23:53 2007
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Luis,

There is a much superior  product that comes from igneous rock than 
basalt.  It is called
Blur Crocidolite and is much stronger and stiffer than basalt  So is 
Chrystolite which is a shorter fiber.

Unfortunately, the common name for those products is ASBESTOS.  No thank 
you.

Jerry



Luis Miguel Casta?eda Navas wrote:
>
> On 28/10/2007, at 22:24, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
>> Luis'
>>
>> Basalt?  What are you talking about?  How does basalt help?
>
> Gitzo manufactures a line of lightweight tripods for 35mm  and medium 
> format made of it.
>
> http://services.gitzo.com/basalt/home.htm
>
> I handled one of them with my mamiya 7II and I was very impressed, 
> probably it will be my next tripod.
> _
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