Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com>wrote: >Buy a Gitzo if you want to buy only 1 tripod. >Leo Wesson >Photographer/Videographer >817.733.9157 >www.leowesson.com ===================================================================================================== I only have experience with one Gitzo, the one at work. I don't know what model it is, but I do know it has been unusable for a number of years. The leg collars are either jammed so tight they can hardly be loosened, or slip when they seem secured. Cleaning the threads in the collars didn't help. And the three-way head always has about two degrees of play in it side to side where it joins the legs, even with everything tightened down, so that the composition never is stable. I gave up trying to use it. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Relations University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt