It's a cool idea. Not really practical, but cool. I'd like to see how this idea will have developed in 5 or 10 years. Great ideas often have funky, fairly impractical beginnings.
It's a cool idea. Not really practical, but cool. I'd like to see how this idea will have developed in 5 or 10 years. Great ideas often have funky, fairly impractical beginnings.
Wow!
Sure, it's fussy to setup, but how many times do you need to do that? My question is how rigid are the leg tubes if carried by them?
One of those with a Chamonix would be lighter than most cameras themselves! Are these for sale somewhere?? (Edit: looks like you have to call them and ask? Weird.)
All we really need to know is what the exact plastic that the legs are made from.
How thick we can figure out.
Tin Can
This could be a great kikstrtr project . . .
Drew Bedo
www.quietlightphoto.com
http://www.artsyhome.com/author/drew-bedo
There are only three types of mounting flanges; too big, too small and wrong thread!
Yeah then make a retractable system for the legs like seat belts... That way it's adjustable height... But for photography it's impractical... Weight means stability, especially for larger cameras... My cf tripod folds down to fit inside my bag along with my 4x5... Good for packing but not the best tripod for LF... Plus that head is really really clunky... The girth makes it just as impractical as length
Cool. But of course the lighting would all change by the time you finally get it all set up. Might work for a sniper if he specialized only in targets taking long naps.
Do you pack up your tripod between every shot?
Maybe it's just me, but I setup my tripod once for a whole day of hiking. I carry it on my shoulder, usually with the camera on the head too. Especially if it's a heavier camera, I use my darkcloth as a pad for my shoulder.
about 20 years ago I worked in concert lighting and was shown a 40' long single piece of scaffold tube (speed rail to anybody in the U.S.)
it came in a small box and u rolled like a fire hose
then it was snapped round like this tripod but then the two sides were zipped together
it weighed very little and could support the sales man hunting in the middle of it with very little bend
we never bought any because it was £1500 back in 1990 when scaffold tube was about £1 a foot
It looks pretty cool to me, very small foot print when collapsed, which makes it easy to stow with the rest of camera gear
compared to a traditional tripod.
I Googled around to see if it was commercially available, but it seems not yet, I did find this video from the developers
and the un-rolling and rolling of the legs seem to be very fast compared to the guys in Drew's video link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGxD...&feature=g-upl
That hiking all day thing with a camera over your shoulder doesn't work very well in brush or in the mtns. Last time I saw somebody try that, all his gear was smashed by the end of the day, and his leg too. Think I'll stick with my tried and true Gitzo, which fortunately has three plys of CF. The newer ones have only two, and are much easier to break if the tubing gets dented or gouged. And there's a point at which you really need a certain amt of mass under a view camera to keep it from becoming a kite. Of course, I prefer a wooden tripod on dayhikes for this very reason. But CF is awfully nice for backpacking and airline use. But maybe
somebody will reinvent the wheel. We'll see.
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