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An Italian with Great Legs

Chris Nevard

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Ah - gotya! I expect you were hoping for some prime totty! Sorry, nothing so exciting, but what would you expect on a toy train BLOG? But I can tell you that my huge heavyweight vintage pro spec Manfrotto Art 075 tripod is suffering with 4 broken leg extending clips after 25 years of use - not bad, it having been made in a country better known for cars that rust when new and dishwashing machines. Getting hold of spares has been impossible, so for the last few shoots I've been resorting of using a pair of pliers for any leg length adjustments - which is rather tardy to say the least.

 

So, whilst I await some other kind of mechanical fix for 'the beast' probably involving a keen chap with a foundry and skills normally used maintaining the Eiffel Tower, I've taken delivery of a Manfrotto 055XPROB. Why this model? Well, it has an arm which allows me to suspend a camera actually above a layout which is something I've never been able to do until now. Benbo is a well known make that's been doing this 'arm thing' for years, but with Manfrotto now taking this useful route, it allows me to use my various tripod heads (a ball and socket being seen in the shot).

 

So, here we have a snap of a camera taking a shot of another camera taking a photo of Catcott Burtle, the view as you would briefly see shortly before hitting the ground at 120 MPH - if having fallen from an Tiger Moth!

 

 

 

 

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Timara

I've long been wondering what to get instead of using my uber-heavyweight Uniloc Chris - you've just answered my question!cool.gif

 

Ta for that :)

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Steve Taylor

Always intriguing to see other people's solutions. Personally I use a 055 CF with the centre turned horizontal as in your pic and a set of counter weights (made from some switch spacer blocks - came free on a recovery job :D and can be slotted onto the legs and jammed there if i forget the clamps). To get into the deluxe anorak mode..... is that the 28-70 AFS? Thats one of the reasons I regret going over to Canon, lovely glass. Know what you mean about manfroto's build quality though: dodgy castings :(

 

Cheers again

Steve

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Chris Nevard

Correct - the Nikkor 28-70 f2.8 IFED. I'm hoping to replace the camera body later this spring, but at 100 iso shooting in RAW the elderly D200 holds its own on the printed page even at double page spread against more recent models bar the D3x which is mucho-bucko.

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