Re: tripods

["Nick Dando" =]

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Date: Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:35 pm ((PST))

An alternative, that's slightly cheaper and only slightly heavier, to carbo=
n fibre is the Basalt range from Gitzo. They're made from crushed rock, so =
the fragility of carbon fibre should be avoided.

Nick
On 28 Feb 2013, at 02:26, jtudor2005 wrote:

> A word of caution with Carbon Fibre. Should you get a fine splinter from =
it, it is very hard to remove and gets infected very easily.
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> --- In  Eric Fassbender wrote:
> >
> > Nice rig there Greg, I really like it. May I ask which brand your tripo=
d is? I'm asking because I have read elsewhere that some carbon tripods can=
 be very susceptible to knocks, i.e. They shatter/split/crack when they hit=
 a rock on the wrong spot.
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