[rollei_list] Re: [rolleiusers] Wooden tripods

> Carbon fiber to me is after all the thing tripods should be made of.
> But I'd imagine a variety of high techish plastics would be fine.
> I'm pushing plastic here.
>
> I left Portland And Moved the Manhattan Nov 1 of last year so its been
> almost exactly a year. 30 years in Portland. It got out of hand.
>
>
> A heavier Gitzo carbon and I can get rid of all my other tripods.
> But those are 5 6 7 hundred bucks I think.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com

I am looking to get just one more tripod and I want one that I don't cuss
at for getting locked  up too tight or bruising my shoulder or never quite
tightening down though I can't figure out what part is loose.  Though this
11 pounds with the head medium Gitzo, I think it is a studex or some name
like that, has been a great tripod for the couple of times in my life I
want to get to the top of a 10 foot step ladder and look through the
camera.  I once dropped an 8x10 Raja from there onto a concrete floor and
the next day bought myself a new Zone 6 8x10.

I have been in Portland now 28 years and I don't know if it is getting out
of hand but it definitely doesn't like me as much as it used to.  Life
used to be easy here and now I am starting to think of staking out a spot
under a bridge.  I don't think I have the cojones to move to New York
though.  Seems pretty impressive that you did.  Had I known you were going
to up and bolt like that I would  have made an effort to bump into you at
the grocery store more often.

One thing I like about that manfrotto is the column goes horizontal.  I
bought a horizontal attachment for the Gitzo but it is difficult to carry
along on a walk.

Dennis
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