Tripod question?

Does anyone have comments about the following tripods:
Manfrotto 719
Velbon Maxi 343
and how they compare to more "classic" models,
say manfrotto 190?

Thank you

Theo


theo

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> and how they compare to more "classic" models,
> say manfrotto 190?

The same way "Blackpool" compares to "Eiffel".

Except that the Manfrotto (and others) attain "classic" status by actually
having a degree of stability. I used a borrowed Velbon 343 to hold a
borrowed SB28 for a portrait, while my camera was on my 055C. Thanks to the
Velbon, I was lucky to have caught the SB28 in time before I had to
shamefacedly return it to my manager in pieces, along with the cash value of
the unit. I would NOT buy one!

--
Martin
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people
two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is
widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods
can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100 miles is
easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have
to die of dental abcesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells
you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say 'yes'.

-- Terry Pratchett