On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > I have an opinion which is somewhat contrary. It is that if you are on > a tight budget, then you can't afford to waste money - which is > exactly what people do when they buy on price. You buy something, > hoping it will be adequate and when its not you spend money moving up > the chain until finally you buy what you should have bought in the > first place... only you have spent something approaching DOUBLE the > cost of your final equipment.... > > So I'm not getting one until I can get the one I really want (which is > the Acratech Ultimate Ballhead > http://www.creationview.com/Review4.html)
Thanks, Darren. The sentiment is more or less mine in most things. Part of the attraction of remaining manual as much as possible - though only part -- is that I can get reasonably good equipment that I can afford. The Acratech sounds like a wonderful piece of equipment -- and beautiful, too. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
