Wooden tripods

[DionM]

Someone put me on to some wooden tripods from Germany. Certainly look well made and don't seem to cost too much - plus they are tall.

Why don't we use wooden tripods these days? Do they not dampen vibrations enough?

I probably won't get one because of hassles flying international and declaring wooden products ... but still wondering why they fell out of favour.

[KerryPierce]

My guess would be the weight is what caused them to fall behind the other products.

[Sheetshooter]

Dion,

I don't believe that they are out of favour at all. In fact, in the USofA they are standard kit for wilderness folk because they are light, durable and you don't get frost bite from touching them. Same goes over there with large format field cameras - where Wista, and Deardorffs reign supreme although in that case there is an issue woth rigidity. But a tripod is not the same sort of precision instrument as a camera and so I have never had one f these cameras made out of dead people's furniture!

I must confess I do favour carbon-fibre tripods and to that end I have two cine tripods with 75mm bowl levelling heads - a Gitzo and a Miller. But wod is fine and I have little experience of quarrantine issues with them, although it was over 30 years ago that I went O/S with one.

Cheers,

[DionM]

Thanks sheetshooter.

I am looking at Berlebach:
http://www.berlebach.de/e_index.php?PHP ... ab52469e4a

For an avg price of around 190Euros, plus 40Euro postage, for a total of 230Euros I can get what seems to be a fairly well made wooden tripod.

[Sheetshooter]

Dion,

You might also like to check out RIES TRIPODS from the USof A.