Originally Posted by
Peter Lewin
The FLM CP-Travel mentioned on Indiegogo is now in production AFAIK. Send a PM to Ari (Ari Tapiero) who is on this Forum. I have the CP-Travel, purchased for the same reason OP mentions, and it is excellent. Compact, but not super-light. I have been experimenting locally with a very stripped-down kit (Canham DLC with 150mm mounted, holders, t-shirt for a dark cloth, and a spot meter, plus the CP-Travel), and it works well; biggest issue is finding a tripod head which is light, compact, and easy to work with. I haven't really solved that one yet, I'm using an older Gitzo ballhead whose only advantage is that it was one of the four heads I already owned. I also tried a 3-way (also sitting around) which worked better but didn't pack as conveniently. But contact Ari about the CP-Travel - highly recommended.
P.S.: The image "Bridge in Great Swamp" in the Bridges sub-forum was from my FLM experiment; obviously you can't tell anything about a tripod from the picture, but for me it was part of my "proof of concept."
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