Am 20.05.22 um 16:32 schrieb Bill:
It could just be that Manfrotto is the General Motors of tripods, but my experience with the 055 was such that when I went looking for a replacement, lever locks were at the top of my avoid this crap list and Manfrotto was not on my radar at all.
I had a 055 and te main prob with those Manfrottos is anoter one. I call it the Manfrotto twist. Put a camera with a longer lens on top, then grip the camera, rotate it around its vertical axis and watch how the legs bend around. This holds true for many tripods with tube-stye legs but seems to be worst with Manfrotto. I'm using a Berlebach wood tripod. Admitedly nothing you'd want to take along for air travel (although I've done just that) but it's the only tripod I know that doesn't weight a ton and can be used with long lenses even in gale-force winds. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
