Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The hook on the Gitzo 1228 is a wonderful thing. You camera bag or backpack works great as a stabilizing weight. But this whole thread on tripods seems to miss the point of the M camera. If I'm carrying a tripod, it's generally for use with the R or the M7...Mamiya 7, that is ;-). I prefer using the small Bogen tabletop tripod with the Ms. But for those of you who use the larger tripods with the M, here's a tip: Keep a quick release plate attached to the M grip. That way, the camera is better centered over the tripod, and the grip + plate can be detached from the body by the hand key. This seems to work out much better than attaching the plate directly to the camera body. - --Jim - -----Original Message----- From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 10:29 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Re: Stabilizing a CF tripod At 10:06 PM 9/19/99 -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >CF tripods are very light, almost too light in some circumstances, >though. How do you stabilize the tripod so it doesn't fall over so easily? > >Godfrey Many years ago I invented a thing that I called "Steady Hook." I manufactured various sizes, actually I could fit any tripod. The "Steady Hook" mounted in the bottom of the tripod centerpost. It was a very substantial stainless steel hook. You could hang anything on it to stabilize your tripod. Putting weight on the centerpost is the proper way to stabilize camera vibration. I sold hundreds of these things. Galen Rowell even plugged them in one of his books. But I don't make them any more. No time. Gitzo now puts a hook on the bottom of their centerpost (gee... I wonder how they got the idea, since Manfroto was talking to me about the "Steady Hook" a few years ago !!!) . So, to stabilize a Gitzo CF tripod, hang something from the hook on the centerpost. Jim