Robert Carter wrote: > Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from The Far North > May the wind always be to your back Living just south of Robert, but on another continent, this will be New Year's Greetings from the cold and windy North (we have about 30 knot winds just now)! Now for something completely different!: Many of you have struggled with tripods, to get them level! It isn't that easy - seems our brain isn't made for getting tripods level - four legs seems so much easier! There are of course no four-legged B tripods: But don't you worry, because I think I just found the ideal tripod & head combination: From the US you get a Wimberley WH-200 panorama head, the best of them all, and from Germany you buy the nicest tripod there is, a Berlebach Reporter 3032. It is oldfashioned, made mainly of ash, but it has a ball head, of sorts, built-in, so you you set it easily level (it has a libelle to aid you), and then you add your own panorama/video head. Couldn't be simpler! And while the Berlebach is slightly heavier than a modern carbon tripod, being mainly made out of ash (the tree), it is very much cheaper. You buy these tripods on the internet: http://www.berlebach.de/?bereich=details&id=289&sprache=english I bought my Wimberley from B&H: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/404536-REG/Wimberley_WH_200_Gimbal_Type_Tripod_Head.html Reviews (and photos): http://www.pentaxforums.com/accessoryreviews/showproduct.php?product=1073&cat=134 http://www.pentaxforums.com/accessoryreviews/showproduct.php?product=1074&cat=143 Any other kind of video head works, of course! One would think I'd gain anything for promoting these, but I don't - I just like 'em! <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tord S Eriksson, MA in Journalism; ex Editor-in-Chief; Avid Photographer; Pentax Fan, Articulated Bus Driver; Hon. Member of East Horsley Aerospace; Hon. Member of PAN, the World's Oldest Photo Club; On FlickR: Tord55; </font> *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Dec 25 2011 - 14:36:42 PST
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