On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Don Williams wrote: > The newer version (475) of the Tripod I have (075) has click stops on > the leg supports. This makes it very easy to set the three legs the > same > distance out. I've made a gauge from a piece of scrap steel. It goes > into the tube and each support is closed until it stops; then the > thumb > nut is tightened. Its very easy to do -- but a click stop would be > nice. > I thought of drilling holes for pins, but that would weaken the > supports. Why do I want to do this? I'm planning small panoramas.
Buy a Manfrotto 3502 Compact Levelling Head ... get the leg lengths close, then level the platform that your panorama head sits on. <http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home? O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=203536&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNav igation> or http://tinyurl.com/9oz6c Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
