I've owned both a grooved shaft Slik and a Manfrotto. Now I have no Slik and two Manfrotto's. Should tell you something.
-- Bruce Thursday, March 8, 2007, 7:25:36 AM, you wrote: >> >> From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2007/03/08 Thu PM 02:42:16 GMT >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Buying a monopod >> >> Hi! >> >> I've decided I'd buy a monopod. My choices are basically >> Slik 350 and >> Manfrotto 680. >> >> Any specifics I should be looking for or both are acceptable. >> >> Mainly I am going to use it with 80-320 towards 320 mm of course. And >> generally a bit of (mobile) support won't hurt me. >> >> What do you say? mw> Generally, the fewer joints the better. If you must have mw> more than one, high quality is of the essence. I am not sure of mw> the grooved shaft on the Slik (sounds like a gimmick, ready to mw> fill with stuff and stop it working) or the quality of the locks. mw> Manfrotto for me. mw> ----------------------------------------- mw> Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email mw> Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
