iomatic Posted March 7, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted March 7, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Would you take a Gitzo and RRS head/plate/clamp or gorillapod? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Roderik Posted March 7, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted March 7, 2007 i would take something in between. A table tripod i good enough in most situation but this gorillapod does not look very convinsing to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hpu Posted March 7, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted March 7, 2007 Jack, Roderik, Look at this website: Joby - Home of the Gorillapod. Bye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roderik Posted March 7, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted March 7, 2007 could be usfull indeed.. looks silly tough (-: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertknappmd Posted March 7, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted March 7, 2007 Gitzo tripod and Kirk BH-5 for me. Light and very sturdy ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugby Posted March 7, 2007 Share #6  Posted March 7, 2007 I recently went through this exercise and determined the gorilla pod from other user experiences to be unsatisfactory. With longer lenses it has no strength to counter a distant centre of gravity, and secondly is prone to bounce from vibrations.  You have not stated the size and weight of the camera/lens combination taht will be on the tripod.....as this affects the solution.  Depending on what you are prepared to carry the lightest to heaviest: a) String tripod (for emergencies only) do a google on this. Leica Mini table top tripod c) Hakuba travel tripod d) Carbon Gitzo G1027 (G1127) with G1177M magnesium or RRS BH25  For my D3/L1, I chose a, c and d for a 3-continents round the world experience recently, but turned out didn't need to use d  I'm of the belief(practice) that the camera/lens/tripod-head combination to tripod weight ratio should be as close to 1:1 +/- 25%........ Someone else in this forum was prepared to put $10K worth of M8/lens/RRS-BH40 onto a tripod only 1/3 it's weight, this to me is just asking for a trip to Solms for your gear. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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