What Vibration Does A Wood Tripod Dampen And Why Does It Matter?

[Dan Fromm]

Kev, its magic bullets all over again.

[kev curry]

:-)

[Turner Reich]

The manufacturers who have been around for half to a full century, how could they stay in business if their tripods didn't work? Wood has been used since the beginning, aluminum and metal for decades, carbon fiber for a few decades, since the '90s ? The cf tripods are designed primarily with one thing in mind, weight.

Maybe someone will invent a light weight gyro stabilizer head for tripods.

[Clemens]

Just a small, un-scientific test I made with a very long telephoto lens, ca. 1200mm focal length on a full format DSLR with liveview:

Gitzo Studex tripod vs. an old Berlebach Report: the Berlebach was the clear winner. If I touch the lens to focus I can see the vibrations in enlarged Liveview. When I finished focussing the image was still shaking 3-4 seconds on the Gitzo and about 1 second on the Berlebach. On the wooden tripod the lens was also much less vulnerable to vibrations caused by wind.

[Turner Reich]

Wood is good, a gyro stabilizer on top is better.

[Bob Salomon]

Berlebach actually published the vibration test results and test methods by a German lab. If anyone is interested we can mail it to them.

[Archphoto]

Why don't you put a link to that test here ?

Those who are still reading this thread will after 9 pages.....

Peter