If you want to make your tripod more stable, cheaply. Then hanging a heavy
weight underneath might help, until a more solid solution arrives.
swisspace wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have finally found my way here after posting on Photo.net quite a
> while ago. Been watching the list for a while and you all seem nice
> folks, so finally plucked up the courage to post.
>
> I have to confess to being a true zuikoholic or rather olympusolic. I
> bought my first camera a black om10 with databack when I was 19 ish and
> about 5 years later bought a second hand om2 spot, which failed in the
> freezing cold of quebec, sent it for repair and never saw it again.
> Around the same time I bought a new om10 from catalogue surplus place.
>
> I then spent 10 years working with no play and managed to get to a
> position to be able buy a new OM body ( I am an Amateur user), so I
> choose the OM3Ti because of the failure of the OM2 in the cold and I
> also wanted the Flash sync at all speeds.
>
> other purchases to note are I used my bonus last year to purchase a new
> 180f2 from Germany, which had to go back to the factory for a warranty
> because the focusing action was not right. The "lens" will be one of the
> things that my wife will bring up whenever she feels necessary, she
> wanted to spend the money on the roof :-) .
>
> okay now to the reason of posting, I have been taking some close up
> "macro" shots with just the 180f2 and 1.4x converter and I can see the
> lens settling from the mirror vibration, so I have been experimenting,
> such as using fill in flash to freeze it etc. The tripod is a cheap one
> so it is mostly to blame, but should I buy an expensive tripod or
> another OM body which has mirror lock up (self timer would be usefull as
> well) and if so which body would you recommend - I have been looking at
> OM4's on thingybay but reading various lists, this seems the most fault
> prone of the bodies, so maybe I should wait until I can afford a second
> hand Ti version.
>
> OR any recommendations for a decent tripod and what sort of price range
> covers decent eg do I need to pay 2-300 dollars for a ball head, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ian
> A brit living in Switzerland
>
>
>
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