A light, tall tripod recommendation?

I just purchased a 3021 bpro manfrotto tripod. I use the manfrotto
small quickrelease plate ballhead. Everything is fine, but man-o-man is
this tripod overbuilt for a 35mm camera. (too heavy)

Does anyone have any recommendations for a 70" or higher tripod that
will accept my bogen ballhead that is much lighter than this thing.
(the better part of 10 pounds I think).

Aren't those gitzos light. or even a plastic one of some kind.

thanks! Tor

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I just purchased a 3021 bpro manfrotto tripod. I use the manfrotto
small quickrelease plate ballhead. Everything is fine, but man-o-man is
this tripod overbuilt for a 35mm camera. (too heavy)

Does anyone have any recommendations for a 70" or higher tripod that
will accept my bogen ballhead that is much lighter than this thing.
(the better part of 10 pounds I think).

Aren't those gitzos light. or even a plastic one of some kind.

thanks! Tor

I have the Manfrottom 55MF3 which (column extended) reaches over 70"
(column extended) ... but not very rigid when extended. Pretty light.

Cheers,
Alan.

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I just purchased a 3021 bpro manfrotto tripod. I use the manfrotto
small quickrelease plate ballhead. Everything is fine, but man-o-man is
this tripod overbuilt for a 35mm camera. (too heavy)

Does anyone have any recommendations for a 70" or higher tripod that
will accept my bogen ballhead that is much lighter than this thing.
(the better part of 10 pounds I think).

Aren't those gitzos light. or even a plastic one of some kind.

thanks! Tor

The lighter they are, the more subject they are to wind and external
vibration....I don't do much hiking anymore, but just shoot a few feet from
the trunk of my car, so I carry a very heavy tripod....If you want light
weight and sturdiness, then consider going the carbon fiber route....These
are expensive, ($400 plus) but they combine light weight with
strength....They still suffer from wind vibration, however. Only heavy
weight will protect you from that......

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I knew a fellow out west here that shot beautiful outdoor landscape
with a 4x5 camera and an old beat up gitzo that was amazingly thin and
feable looking. If there was wind, he would tie weight to it. I think,
as he did, that many people over kill their choice of tripods.

I may need more weight than he because I am over 6 foot, and there
seems to be an exponential wooble factor as you get high up there.

Or you could just duck down a little and not extend the center column.

I would just set the camera on the ground if I wasn't interested in it
being elevated.

t


Or you could just duck down a little and not extend the center column.

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I would just set the camera on the ground if I wasn't interested in it
being elevated.

t



Or you could just duck down a little and not extend the center column.



Depends on how much elevation you really need.

I think you started the thread mentioning 3021 legs & I dunno what head.

My own experience with 4x5 view camera on 3021 legs & a 410 geared head
is there's plenty of elevation without having to extend the center column.

The camera will wobble around a lot more when the center colum is
extended. The bigger the camera you hang out there on that extended
center column, the more wobble you get.

And a lighter tripod that requires an extended center column to get the
same elevation is going to have more wobble, so there's trade-offs
involved ... either carry a big enough tripod, duck down so you don't
have to extend the center column on the light tripod or live with fuzzy
photographs from camera shake.

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I would just set the camera on the ground if I wasn't interested in it
being elevated.

t

Or you could just duck down a little and not extend the center column.

The problem is that you related the tripod height to how tall
*you* are, not to elevation of the camera.

The suggestion to duck down a bit is merely saying that you
might use a different priority as you develop methods and
acquire equipment.

Not that your comfort level is unimportant, but the point is
that "light weight" and "height" are both the opposite of
"stable" when applied to a tripod. If you need a tripod, you
are apparently looking for stability; you might get a little
bit of light weight or a little bit of height, and still have
a relatively stable platform, but you can't get much of either
and you can't get both.

Generally the easiest and best solution is to bend a little.

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