You may want to look at Induro or Benro (they are the same, Induro relabeled costs a lot more though); they have a rep for being 90% of a Gitzo tripod / Arca head at 25-50% of the price Good luck Ecke BTW another option would be to get a refconverter and a tripod that is just the right height so you could bend down comfortably; you could save some weight, collapsed size and perhaps even moolah =)
2009/12/23 <[email protected]>: > > I am thinking about getting a carbon fiber tripod. My current one is too > heavy, so I rarely use it (always makes me think that standard tripods are a > "guy thing" -- i.e. lots of upper body strength to lug around). > > Want light, want one that goes fairly tall (I am tall), and one that > collapses to a fairly short length. > > And I want to keep it around $300 max. > > Don't want a lot, do I? ;-) > > I've been looking online and the Velbon El Carmagne seems doable. My > hesitation is that I have a Velbon non-carbon fiber now and don't like it > much > (admittedly it was only about $70). I mean it's okay and workable, but the > pan and tilt head moves even after I have it clamped all down and I have > found that highly annoying. I don't like ball heads much. > > Anyone have experience with it or some other that they can recommend? > > Thanks, Marnie aka Doe > > --------------------------------------------- > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we > created them. Albert Einstein > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
