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Subject: yes yes I know - Tripods

PeeWee05 opened this issue on Jun 01, 2006 · 10 posts

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PeeWee05 ( ) posted Thu, 01 June 2006 at 2:29 AM · edited Sun, 02 February 2025 at 1:05 PM

So I've searched and read all of the threads on tripods but I wanted to know what tripods everyone has got, why they like it and what they mostly use it for. I wanna get a fancy tripods, got a giottos 1.5kg 1.6m extend but it can't hold my 350D and Sigma zoom without tilting, so... You see the problem.

I'm just asking to gauge what everyone uses theirs for and what are the best features for them - and you know what I didn't even know that heads came as changables!!! So head too please :}

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TwoPynts ( ) posted Thu, 01 June 2006 at 10:53 AM

OOOH, I want my kiss! :a_kiss: But you've got to go look at my answer in the other old Forum thread you resurrected. :a_grin:

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3DGuy ( ) posted Thu, 01 June 2006 at 11:11 AM

I've got the manfrotto 190DB. Works perfectly with my Nikon D70 and Sigma zoom.

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Onslow ( ) posted Thu, 01 June 2006 at 11:31 AM · edited Thu, 01 June 2006 at 11:35 AM

Another vote for Manfrotto 190

Head is personal taste and what you will be using it for you really need to try out the ball heads and the pan and tilt see which suits you best.

Anything but a Benbo Octupus - Jeeeeeeez I had one of those at the weekend to take dragon fly shots etc. The legs definitely multiply when you try to use it I am sure there were more than 3 ! I gave up with it but my colleague perserved he said it was good once you got used to it

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We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

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Nameless_Wildness ( ) posted Thu, 01 June 2006 at 2:11 PM

Never use one!....have one....Manfrotto 458B with 141 RC head....collecting dust!

Simon_P ( ) posted Thu, 01 June 2006 at 3:12 PM

Manfrotto 055CLB with a 141RC pan and tilt head.

Solid and sturdy enough without the need for a caddy to carry it, and can be used at a very low height, stands up to the cruel Highland winds, weight it can take is 6K (plenty for what I need)

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Simon_P ( ) posted Thu, 01 June 2006 at 3:13 PM

Manfrotto 055CLB with a 141RC pan and tilt head.

Solid and sturdy enough without the need for a caddy to carry it, and can be used at a very low height, stands up to the cruel Highland winds, weight it can take is 6K (plenty for what I need)

Use it for landscape and still life macro.

They wouldn’t have made the cane if you weren’t meant to break the rules