Subject: Tripods - Help!!!!
Date: Mar 15 07:00:21 1999
From: Robert Taylor - taylorrt at email.msn.com


Tyler, Tweets and all others

I understand that Don Baccus is a Pro in photography and I think that he
would agree with Denny's comments. Why spend hundreds for optics (camera or
scope) and compromise their capabilities.

I have a dent in my shoulder from tripod carrying and have never regretted
it. Except when I have wished for an even sturdier, heavier more rock-like
tripod!!

Bob Taylor
Sumner, WA
taylorrt at msn.com


-----Original Message-----
From: osprey at nwinfo.net <osprey at nwinfo.net>
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Tripods - Help!!!!


>Tyler and Tweeters,
>
>I think that you cannot compromise on a tripod. On two field trips, one at
>a WOS convention and one this past Saturday, I have seen people with very
>expensive scopes but who bought inexpensive tripods. The scopes were
>virtually unusuable. One person had a Kowa with a small, lightweight
>tripod. The scope actually swayed from the weight of the scope and the
wind
>was not blowing.
>
>There are many tripods available out there. You need one that is strong,
>especially with a scope the size of that nearly everyone is buying now. I
>don't think you can get one that is strong and lightweight. You have to
>compromise somewhere. A strong one will be a little heavier, a lightweight
>one won't be sturdy enough. It doesn't matter how great your scope is if
>the tripod can't hold it still.
>
>You also need a scope with a head (the part that the scope attaches to)
that
>is designed for a scope and not a camera. I have a Bogen 3221. Nearly
>everyone with a quality scope has a Bogen. They seem to have had birders
in
>mind when they designed the heads and their tripods.
>
>Denny Granstrand
>Yakima, WA
>
>At 08:45 PM 3/14/99 EST, you wrote:
>>Tweeters -
>>
>>I am looking for a good, sturdy tripod that is relatively cheap. It needs
to
>>be able to hold a spotting scope, but is also light, and semi-compact. Is
>>there such a thing? What do you recommend? What do you use/have?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tyler
>>
>>
>
>osprey at nwinfo.net
>
>