I have a 3221 and had the same problem with the leg clamps. I found
it helps to reduce the spring tension in the clamps by adjusting nuts.
The trick is to loosen the clamp as far as you can go without the legs
collapsing when you apply some downward force. You have to estimate what
your heaviest camera and lens combo will be and add a little extra force
just to be on the safe side. I have not been bit since I made these
adjustments and the tripod sets up smoothly and with less effort. I
bought my tripod on the floor of the camera shop and I think they had a
gorilla set it up originally.
Frank
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:51:14 -0600 "Daniel J. Mitchell"
<DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I finally submitted to the urge, and bought myself a real tripod +
> head;
> apart from small hiking ones, I've been using a cheap Cullman I got
> for $25
> -- it worked, in as much as it would keep the camera in the air
> roughly at
> eye level, and roughly in the same place -- but the legs were pretty
> flexy,
> all came together in a lump of plastic, and the head wasn't as rigid
> as I'd
> have liked.
>
> So I bit the bullet and went off to get a Manfrotto 055PRO [1] +
> 308RC
> head; and boy, the improvement in solidity is like night and day..
> The first
> thing I noticed is that I _can_ follow Olympus's recommendation to
> not use a
> cable release, because the camera doesn't shake around just because
> my hands
> are near it. This one simply isn't going anywhere.
>
> Secondly, while it took me a little while to get used to the ball
> head,
> it's a _lot_ easier to use than the pan/tilt head was. (and I really
> appreciate the way I can take it all apart with no tools for
> maintenance)
>
> Thirdly, it looks much more badass than the previous tripod did,
> being all
> black rather than having weird green graphics on it in places. Sure,
> this
> isn't a major factor in functionality, but heck, may as well go for
> the cool
> stuff if I have the choice.
>
> Fourthly, I _like_ the horizontal-positioning option. That's very
> nice; I
> do enough macro stuff that I can see it being definitely useful, as
> well as
> just plain neat.
>
>
> Disadvantages: not super-light, but then again I could afford this,
> unlike
> the various CF ones out there. If I want light, I'll take the hiking
> one --
> it's solid enough to work, and very definitely portable. Also, the
> leg
> clamps have bit me at least once, and while I hope that's the last
> time, I
> may be being optimistic there..
>
>
> Question: because the top of the quick-release has a rubber pad on
> it,
> there's a small, but with long lenses definitely noticeable, amount
> of sag
> when I take my hands off the lens after locking the ball down.
> What's the
> best way to deal with this? I assume just tightening the
> quick-release onto
> the camera even more isn't a good idea; should I be using one of
> those fancy
> metal ReallyRightStuff-type mounts instead, or is there some
> technique to
> holding the camera that avoids this sort of thing?
>
>
> -- dan
>
>
> [1] = bogen 3021pro / 3413QR head. or is it the other way around?
>
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