I use those effete, ultra-light carbon fiber jobbies. When I need more mass, I hang a net bag from the upper clamp and fill it with rocks I gather at the site, or a couple of full water bottles, and/or my camera bag.
Hate carrying heavy stuff. But then I only rarely work with lenses much longer than 100-200 mm. It's probably not appropriate to proper use with a 600mm lens, but while on the IoM I borrowed Paul's Manfrotto 190CX aluminum legs and fitted my Markins Q3 Emille to them. It turned out to be an excellent tripod for my needs (fast, tall enough, light, easy to work with) to the point where I'm considering picking up a set of the 190CXPRO3 (carbon fiber version) legs. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
