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Subject: [Leica] OT: Custom tripod collar?
From: digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:08:45 -0500
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Doug,

Absolutely!

I guess I could fashion a plate (or have one made) similar to the base
plate of the Telyt but longer towards the camera end.  Then drill or
fashion a mounting hole near the rear of the plate for mounting a tilt
tripod head and mount the camera on that. Would work, probably. Maybe
DAG or RRS might be such a plate or could make one. The lens is
supposed to arrive today from KEH. I'll check it out on the GH1 and
see.

Jim

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> James Laird wrote:
>
>> ... I love
>>the way the stock works with my Telyt so much I'm just trying to
>>figure out how to use it with the 200. With the stock you have a much
>>more stable tripod-like support involving the monopod and your two
>>legs. It's just a LOT easier to hold the whole thing steady than with
>>the monopod alone.
>
> Same for me: stability plus mobility, and the weight of the rig isn't in 
> my hands or on my neck or shoulder. ?I'd guess something like 99% of my 
> wildlife photos in the last 8 years were made this way.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] OT: Custom tripod collar?)
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