tripods are expensive




that is all

Which ones are you looking at?

bought a feisol 3401 with the markins Q3 ballhead.

legs + head + plate = $560

meh

Ive used better to hold a speedlight

you hike a lot, so...

http://www.adorama.com/BG682.html

lol


your nikon doesn't even deserve a tripod

http://www.adorama.com/VGTB200.html

better than if you did video.

my manfrotto was $1100!

i wasn't looking for recommendations, i was just speaking rhetorically

thanks though

oh that's right, you're a rocket scientist, you crap out hundreds.

fwiw, I used to have a gitzo explorer that was not only way too expensive, but was the best damned tripod ever.

my girlfriend calls me the tripod, just sayin ..

Is it because you just stand there doing nothing?

I sure hope not

and i'm the one who craps out hundreds?!? those legs cost more than my entire rig!!

Old, used Velbon HE-3 without a ballhead at all. Holds the camera steady, allows me to aim it where I want....sounds like it works fine for all its needed features to me....free from an old friend....

I guess I just don't see the need to spend a freakin fortune to have a camera held steady....

i agree that tripods are damn spendy, but i too just drop almost 500 on a nice one with a ball head and carrying case.

but you get what you pay for i reckon, had a cheaper tripod but it wasnt up to doing anymore then a small point and shoot *of course i was assured that it would work no issues handling the Xsi but that was a lie*

spend the money once get something quality and it will last a lifetime!

I was looking for boom arms today for mine. Can't seem to find anything that I like though. Would like to spend less than 150 though. I am also ordering a remote shutter both wired and wireless romotes.

why both wired and wireless? woulldnt one suffice?

put a square dslr or a a regular w/ grip on there plus a 300/2.8 on a hill to take a pic of a distant elk in the wind at dawn and report back with the results

you dont need to spend a TON...this is what i use
http://www.amvona.com/shop?page=shop.produ...;category_id=95
they dont list the pan head anymore since mine is a few years old..I paid 80bucks shipped off their ebay store.
Its a tank it would hold my old 1DMarkII and Sigma 50-500 thats a total of close to 8lbs and it wouldnt move one bit and was as sturdy as a rock.

I'm speaking for video ... but my tripod was the best money I spent ... on a tripod.

whatever that means.

It means I'm happy with it.

a lot of the cost of my rig is due to its weight - legs + head = 3.5 lbs

i climb mountains. i don't need to carry any more weight with me, so that was a huge factor

this is were IS and Monopod would be the better way to go then to lug a tripod

I think you should return the tripod and just shoot the same way everyone else here does

/zing

oh hello

ok, that's kinda gross, and not just in an I-don't-like-vajayjay way.

Nice combo for the size and weight; I used to shoot with that combo.

I use this ballhead now.

That girl needs to eat a little more

of course she'd be asian

why is she so fat? time to switch to diet soda, fatty.

The Asian girls in my area must be eating a lot of McDonalds because they sure have some rump shakers on them

"It can mount a ballhead."

I'll show her a ballhead she can mount.