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What tripod do you use and aren't many identical?

Started Jun 17, 2019 | Discussions thread
400trix
400trix Senior Member • Posts: 1,125
Re: What tripod do you use and aren't many identical?

Felice62 wrote:

I was going to buy a carbon fiber tripod but one of my colleagues, photog and structures engineer in the aerospace industry, suggested I'd go for the alluminium version as whilst being heavier is more durable.

Carbon fiber isn't 'repairable' and in case of 'incident' it'll break eventually...

So I decided to follow hie advice and purchased a Zomei Z688.

I am glad I did. It is quite solid and breaks down to a monopod. I believe I got it on sale for about 60€, shipped.

Can't really complaint.

Carbon is quite repairable, with the right skills. There’s a growing industry of carbon bike repair, after all. A quality ‘pod like a Gitzo or RRS would be worth fixing.

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