Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 28/10/2007, at 2:34, A. Lal wrote: > The tripod will be used with 35mm and 6 x 6 cameras - SLRs, mostly. > Comments and suggestions are welcomed. Feel free to mention brand > names. wooden tripods are very nice with very heavy LF cameras where your setup is always slow, but for 35mm or 66 only I'll get anything like the gitzos made out of basalt if there is no budget problems. Mind you, as I do have that kind of budget problems I'm perfectly happy with my (cheap but good enough) aluminium manfrotto 190 which holds easily 5kg cameras, also it came with some kind of foam in its upper legs so it won't steal the heat from your hands on cold days. anyhoo tripod choice is very dependent of many factors like your preferred angle views, if it's for studio or field, or how tall you are (which can means lesser stability than desired if you have to use it at full extension or long lenses), and so on... Any day above ground is a good one. ---------------------------------------------- http://luis.imaginarymagnitude.net