At 11:07 PM +0000 1/14/03, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:51:54 +1100
>From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Tripods? (now really OT)
>
> > R. Jackson <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Manfrotto video tripod, but it's about ten times heavier
> > than
> > I want to carry around with me all the time and I have to have a
> > tripod
> > for this class. Can anyone recommend a good lightweight tripod that
> > won't break me? If it would fit in the carryer on a Mini Trekker it
> > would be massively cool, too.
> >
>
>Perhaps the teacher has a recommendation ?
>
>What is the appropriately overpriced tripod to use with the Leica ?
Tiltall used to be the answer, but it is a shadow of former times. I have one
I bought in the 1970s, and it's still a rock. Never did buy the camera though.
I looked at one once. Brand new, something like US $3,000 for the whole kit I
was looking at. When I developed buyers' resistance, the salesman said that
perhaps the price was too high for such as me to handle. A semi-subtle insult
to manhood; probably works a lot of times. I replied that I didn't want a
camera so expensive that I would have to spend all my energy guarding the
camera, with no time left for photography. Not the answer he was seeking.
Joe Gwinn
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