Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Tripod Heads
From: Douglas Cooper <douglas@metaversalstudios.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:26:06 -0500

At 09:55 AM 11/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Now the rant..... if you can knock 3 pounds off the weight of a tripod set
>of legs using carbon fiber, why can't some intelligent engineer make a
>similar reduction in the weight of a tripod head?  The things are made from
>steel.  A change to aluminum would seem better, and titanium, better yet!


Check out the new line of Gitzos, which are made of magnesium.  They're not 
precisely *light*, but they're about a pound or so lighter than the old 
Gitzos, which themselves were lighter than the comparable Bogen heads.

DC