Godfrey
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What does carbon fiber have to do with width and height?
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What does carbon fiber have to do with width and height?
chipgreenberg
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I dunno. I've been eyeing this. Well established and less money.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...B8SB4QM7RW3M05FN&pd_rd_w=kF9PA&pd_rd_wg=Wtq38
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...B8SB4QM7RW3M05FN&pd_rd_w=kF9PA&pd_rd_wg=Wtq38
lawrence
Veteran
Nothing but it has a lot to do with 'width and weight'.
dourbalistar
Buy more film
Freestyle has the gold tripod, at no extra cost:
https://www.freestylephoto.biz/8184...-Original-Series-Tripod-with-3-Way-Head-(Gold)
dourbalistar
Buy more film
That LeoFoto LS-284C (or the legs anyway) is pretty well rated on The Center Column's travel tripod comparison, especially for the price. Much more objective testing than most reviewers:
https://thecentercolumn.com/rankings/travel-tripod-rankings/
chipgreenberg
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Yup..that's where I learned about it.
Meanwhile right now its more want than need. I have a piece of cr@p Cullman. But I shoot a TLR. Normal lends. Light camera. No vibration. Don't raise the center column really due to the WLF. So my pictures are sharp.
Meanwhile right now its more want than need. I have a piece of cr@p Cullman. But I shoot a TLR. Normal lends. Light camera. No vibration. Don't raise the center column really due to the WLF. So my pictures are sharp.
Tim Murphy
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Yes and yes
Yes and yes
Dear Chris,
5 leg sections that are wider than normal to catch the wind is a recipe for disaster to me. The bottom leg sections look like drinking straws.
$ 500.00 is a lot of money even if you have that interesting integral ball head. With a maximum height of 60 inches fully extended it is way too short for me since I'm 6 ' 5".
I use a tripod for telephoto work with both a gimbal and a ball head. I have two Benro tripods that are 3 section that reach to 65 inches with no leg extension. One is aluminum and weighs 6 pounds which Ill admit is heavy. The other is carbon fiber with a center post that articulates, it weighs 4 pounds.
With a gimbal head attached they hold a gripped 7D or IDMK3 with a 150-600mm at comfortable eye level for me. Someone shorter could retract the lower leg sections and further strengthen the support of the tripod. Both were bought new with a Desmond 44mm ball head that could support a rotating .50 cal machine gun. I don't have $ 400.00 in everything and all were purchased brand new with warranty cards.
To me these tripods are a solution in search of a problem. There are literally dozens of used tripods for sale on photography message boards for less money and with much better performance abilities.
Regards,
Tim Murphy
Harrisburg, PA 🙂
Yes and yes
Dear Chris,
5 leg sections that are wider than normal to catch the wind is a recipe for disaster to me. The bottom leg sections look like drinking straws.
$ 500.00 is a lot of money even if you have that interesting integral ball head. With a maximum height of 60 inches fully extended it is way too short for me since I'm 6 ' 5".
I use a tripod for telephoto work with both a gimbal and a ball head. I have two Benro tripods that are 3 section that reach to 65 inches with no leg extension. One is aluminum and weighs 6 pounds which Ill admit is heavy. The other is carbon fiber with a center post that articulates, it weighs 4 pounds.
With a gimbal head attached they hold a gripped 7D or IDMK3 with a 150-600mm at comfortable eye level for me. Someone shorter could retract the lower leg sections and further strengthen the support of the tripod. Both were bought new with a Desmond 44mm ball head that could support a rotating .50 cal machine gun. I don't have $ 400.00 in everything and all were purchased brand new with warranty cards.
To me these tripods are a solution in search of a problem. There are literally dozens of used tripods for sale on photography message boards for less money and with much better performance abilities.
Regards,
Tim Murphy
Harrisburg, PA 🙂
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
I agree. My son and I have two Manfrotto tripods. Both are the same model, 3011, which is a medium-weight aluminum tripod.
I have two Manfrotto pan-tilt heads; the heavy duty 3047, which I used with medium format film cameras; and a lighter one that I use for 35mm film and Micro four Thirds digital.
I also have a heavy duty Slik ballhead, which I bought on sale new for $35 at a camera store in Indianapolis. It was on clearance, discontinued, and being sold cheap; regular price was $200!
Finally, I recently bought the new Benro geared head. I had wanted a geared head for a long time, but the only reasonably priced one on the market was the Manfrotto 410, and it has a reputation for wearing out after a few years of use. The Benro is cheaper, much lighter (made of magnesium instead of aluminum), uses Arca-Swiss quick release plates, and looks to be better made. It is what I use most of the time now.
My oldest tripod gear, one of the 3011 legs and the 3047 head, were bought new when I was 15 years old. I have had them 27 years and they still work flawlessly!
I have bought all of my Tripods and heads new and I think in total I have spent about $500
Godfrey
somewhat colored
LOL! My mistake. 🙂
But I'll tell you that my Feisol CT3442 is massively more stable than my Manfrotto 3120, despite being 1/3 the weight.
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Dan Daniel
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Actually, it wasn't a Leitz design. Well, legally it was because Leitz bought the design for the Marchioni Brothersin New Jersey.
"Early in 1973, Gene Anderegg, from E. Leitz, Inc., in Rockleigh, New Jersey, who had known of the Tiltall for many years, contacted the Marchionis to discuss a possible affiliation. Leitz had an enviable reputation in the scientific world as the builder of the highest quality microscopes, and in the photographic world, as the creator of the famous Leica 35mm system of photography."
https://tiltallsupport.blogspot.com/p/tiltall-support.html
My first Tiltall was a Marchioni version. Still works well.
majid
Fazal Majid
I got to see the PD tripod in their San Francisco store. It's better than I expected. I loathe twist locks, but these are not too bad, because their length gives more leverage than the obnoxious Manfrotto ones.
Extending the last section makes the tripod wobbly, as could be expected, but that was also true of my first-generation Gitzo Traveler. Without the last section, it's reasonably stable.
The ballhead is fiddly and non-removable. It's fiddly and not very ergonomic to use.
Extending the last section makes the tripod wobbly, as could be expected, but that was also true of my first-generation Gitzo Traveler. Without the last section, it's reasonably stable.
The ballhead is fiddly and non-removable. It's fiddly and not very ergonomic to use.
peter_n
Veteran
I have used just three travel tripods; a Gitzo 1541T, Benro C2680T and Leofoto LS-284C which I bought in January, 2018. The Benro was a better tripod than the 1541T. I got 8 years of reliable and trouble-free service from it but replaced it with the Leofoto. After a year of use it was clear the Leofoto was just a better tripod than the Benro; higher quality carbon fiber, CNC-machined 6061/7075 aluminum and stainless steel hardware, no center column, folded shorter than the Benro, and fully extended is just an inch shorter than my RRS TVC-24. The Leofoto is a copy of the RRS TFC-14; look at Dave Berryrieser's travel tripod stability rankings and note the manufacturers of the three tripods that beat the Leofoto (and their prices).
jkcampbell
Established
I have a large RRS tripod that I use for medium and large format but bought the Leofoto LS-284C for when I need to travel light. Now it's my most used tripod. Amazing quality and price for a carbon fiber tripod. Cheers, jc
Out to Lunch
Veteran
No more crowdfunding for me. I'll buy one when it is available in a store.
randy stewart
Established
Not a Tiltall please.
Not a Tiltall please.
Chris, you can get the best tripod ever made new for only about 130$
😉
The reference is to the classic Tiltall tripod. Although it is a great regular use tripod, I disagree where it is used in the great out-of-doors. A fellow participant used a Tiltall at a workshop in the sandy SW, around Page, Arizona. Lots of dust and sand. The Tiltall proved completely vulnerable to such abrasives. Over the course of four days of casual use, it was destroyed - rendered non-function. While it costs 40% of a modern travel tripod, its weighs three times as much, is twice or more as large, and it will fail unless fully disassembled and cleaned every day.
Not a Tiltall please.
Chris, you can get the best tripod ever made new for only about 130$
😉
The reference is to the classic Tiltall tripod. Although it is a great regular use tripod, I disagree where it is used in the great out-of-doors. A fellow participant used a Tiltall at a workshop in the sandy SW, around Page, Arizona. Lots of dust and sand. The Tiltall proved completely vulnerable to such abrasives. Over the course of four days of casual use, it was destroyed - rendered non-function. While it costs 40% of a modern travel tripod, its weighs three times as much, is twice or more as large, and it will fail unless fully disassembled and cleaned every day.
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