On Jul 21, 2005, at 3:33 PM, William Robb wrote:
The head looks like the one I have on my big tripod. It's OK, but
you will want to take it apart and grease it if you want it to work
smoothly.
The legs look kinda junior.
I had to look up the Bogen codes and translate them to Manfrotto:
that's 055C legs and 229 head. I have those same legs with an 029
head (3047).
Do the newer hex-plates actually grip properly? Mine are the old
cork ones and they were hopeless. Any twisting force would cause the
camera or lens to loosen. My 6x7 and my bigger lenses have a second
hole so I ended up putting an M4 screw through the plate. The screw
protrudes into the hole and stops the twisting.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
