Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/11
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Hi group,
Donal wrote:
>Just carried the Gitzo smallest Mountaineer on a 40+ mile backpack and I
>can tell you it has changed my working habits. I have a Foba ball head
>(small) with quick release and have QR plates from Really Right Stuff
>for all the cameras now (including for M2).
Can you tell us how to get a hold of Really Right Stuff? I find the lack of
a QR a limiting factor with a monopod (though not with a tripod).
I've got this gorgeous Gitzo Studex extra long monopod with a Bogen ball
head with that new third leg gizmo (only 40 bucks and is great). But, I
find I don't use the monopod much because attaching the camera - in a
reasonably quick shooting situation circumstance - is a MAJOR pita. Then,
once attached, it feels like the pod is an appendage of the camera and I'm
not just swinging a little Leica from my neck but also 2 lbs. of monopod!
Curt
Elizabeth Mei Wong
Birding with Berkshire County's Hoffman Bird Club or
Women Outdoors at http://members.aol.com/womenout/index.htm
Henry Curtis Miller, M.P.A.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
In the Berkshires, next door to Tanglewood