Custom SLR has recently started carrying fotopro tripods (made by the same folks who make induro). These have arca-swiss compatible heads http://www.customslr.com/collections/fotopro-tripod-and-accessories
They seem to be fairly well built. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:30:05PM -0600, steve harley wrote: > on 2013-08-18 19:59 Christine Aguila wrote > >Thanks, Steve. Are the leg clasps easy to pull open for height adjustment? > >The price for this one is very attractive, but I need clasps that are fairly > >easy to open and close. I have a cheap tripod and among other problems, the > >clasps are a pain to manipulate. > > that's a good question; i haven't been considering this specific > tripod for myself, but notice that several of the reviews > specifically mention that the clamps are easy to use > > note that i made a wrong assumption: some Induro heads come with > Arca-Swiss compatible quick-releases, but not this model; that's a > bit of a downer, but it will mainly affect you if you use multiple > heads and/or when you switch to another head (Manfrotto has the same > problem) > > so just tune up your Internet fu so that you can read between the > lines of glowing and glowering reviews; i'd check B&H as well as > Amazon, and possibly elsewhere > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
