Tiltall tripod

[Rich Ullsmith]

Thanks everybody for the Tiltall recommendation, I picked one up on Ebay for 100 bones. The damn thing is bullet-proof! I think it's an older one as it weighs maybe ten pounds, but it extends to seven feet and is rock solid. Everything else I looked at were toys compared to this thing! And the wife was ready to drop 400 on a carbon fiber thing. . .which means I have 300 more to spend. Thanks again for the rec.

 

[jp80874]

I have had mine in good use since the 1960s.

John Powers

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

It should weigh about 6 lbs. I've had a couple of them and have kept one late Leitz model, which has heftier knobs than some of the earlier ones, and there's a divot machined into the base of the head where the tilt handle would normally hit, so it tilts back farther and stores a little more compactly. I use it as my medium-size tripod.

 

[Rich Ullsmith]

That's the one. The guy took the handles off for shipping, and I managed to dump them in the alley dumpster along with the packing peanuts! Fortunately, there was no garbage service over the xmas break. The neighbor kid already thinks I'm a kook, then he sees me rooting around in the dumpster with a flashlight.

 

[Joe Brugger]

The neighbor kid already thinks I'm a kook, then he sees me rooting around in the dumpster with a flashlight.

I'm still using a 20-year-old one with a Rockleigh, N.J. tag with good results. The head finally started to get kind of wobbly with longer lenses, so I replaced the center column with a Gitzo and put an Acratech ballhead on it.