Tripods

[Polar01]

Colin and Manfred those Feisol tripods are great along with ball heads, only thing I change was I swapped out their clamp to a RRS quick release clamp as I have mounted the RRS L-brackets to both my D600 and D7000 camera. Here in Canada the tripod is about $650.00 try getting a Gitzo for that.
Interesting video watching it now.

Cheers:

Allan

[Colin Southern]

Here in Canada the tripod is about $650.00 try getting a Gitzo for that.

I think my Gitzo and RRS head - inc freight and taxes - totaled about NZD 2500 (that's around USD 2000 at the time)

Interesting video watching it now.

For sure - Peter is at the peak of is game. I wish I had a queue of people lining up for head shots at $1200 a session!

[jimd]

Redsnapper for me. RHS 324 with RHS 12 head. Fantastic for the price

[Green Mountain Girl]

I read some time ago that Gitzo were going to have their tripods manufactured in China, but for some reason it didn't go ahead -- and some felt that Benro was what one would have got had the deal gone ahead. No idea how true it is. Reviews I've read so far say that the Benro tripod was great quality, but their head left a LOT to be desired.

Just to rub it in some more Manfred, I have my open tripod challenge ... still waiting for someone to "step up to the plate" with a similar "torture test"

Colin, your "challenge" would be tough to undertake, not so much for the tripod's ability, more having to do with my own agility!

Although the Gitzo is beyond my budget, I do admire its capability to sit almost flat on the ground. And straddling that stream is wondrous to behold! Hope I can find one that will come close. Alan (Polar01) suggested the Feisel, which looks pretty good. My Benro (Aluminum) has been decent, but I found it problematic when I started to do macro - the center column doesn't let the camera get so close to the ground. I could reverse it and hang the camera up-side-down, but would have to plan for this in advance - don't want to be fooling around with this in the great outdoors!

Does anyone know if there is a way to modify a tripod - take out the center column - and still be able to put on a QR plate? Just wondering. Not sure I want to try cutting off part of the column.

Susan