Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Tripod myth
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:18:30 -0600

At 05:34 PM 07/01/00 +0100, you wrote:
>>>>>The wood and carbon fiber tripods allegedly absorb the vibration
>> better
>> or quicker than metal<<<
>
>That makes a lot of sense! While I was still shooting 16mm news footage I
>once replaced my wooden tripod with the latest Japanese aluminum one, but
>soon realized my mistake. My Arriflex BL remained silent, but the aluminum
>tripod sang a very irritating song thru the whole shoot. The cameraīs
>otherwise unnoticable vibrations was picked up and increased by the tripod.
>Wood and carbon tripods donīt give you that problem.
>

There's a lot more to this than the type of material used to make the
tripod.  I don't want to get into the physics of sympathetic vibrations,
resonance and so on.  Suffice it to say for now that the tripod _design_
is much more important than the material used in construction.