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Subject: [Leica] Casual tripod?
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:41:58 -0600
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OK, I get the picture.  Do you enclose them in a pillow case, or use them 
the way they come from the store?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Carter" <ricc at embarqmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Casual tripod?


> in the crook of a tree
>
> on a stump
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> atop a large rock
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> on the hood or trunk of the car
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> on Kitty's shoulder
>
> on the top edge of a garbage can or barrel
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> et al?
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> ric
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> How do you use the bean bag with a long lens?  On a car window sill, or 
>> lying prone?
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ric Carter" <ricc at embarqmail.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Casual tripod?
>>
>>
>>> beanbag
>>>
>>> and you can eat it if you get lost
>>>
>>> ric
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Ken Carney wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/13/2011 4:12 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>> If I remember you well enough Peter you're on the tallish side like 5' 
>>>>> 11".
>>>>> And tripods if they've got you slumped over you're never going to use 
>>>>> them.
>>>>> You'll say "I don't use tripods they're awkward! Slow me down!"
>>>>> But if you had a taller better one maybe not.
>>>>> 30 bucks is basically nothing.
>>>>> You don't want to spend any money on a tripod.
>>>>> You already have one.
>>>>> 30 bucks is half the amount you'd want to pay for a tripod head. The 
>>>>> key
>>>>> piece of gear as important as your tripod itself.
>>>>> Get a Manfrotto.
>>>>> But the cheapest I'd go it a Tilt all which used to go for 99 bucks 
>>>>> and I
>>>>> bet that's their used price now if not cheaper. The head is bottom 
>>>>> line its
>>>>> not a ball head.
>>>>> Get a used Manfrotto. That's Italian for Bogan. They own Gitzo.
>>>>> Now only will you own it you'll use it and it wont embarrass you.
>>>>> Its what serious photogs get when they don't want to pay for a Gitzo.
>>>> I'm getting an education on tripods.  I hauled my Gitzo 2030 with 
>>>> Manfrotto head all over Yosemite a few weeks ago, and it gained a pound 
>>>> or so each mile, but then it works for 4x5 field cameras as well as 
>>>> digital.  So, I was looking at the Gitzo Mountaineer carbon fiber 
>>>> tripods.  But, the Grail seems to be the Really Right Stuff Versa 
>>>> carbon fiber tripod and 35mm ball head.   Light, no center column to 
>>>> waiver, but...like $1,600 with their ball head.  Choke, choke, but then 
>>>> issue resolved.  Maybe Santa will bring one, cc to spouse.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>>
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