[photo-3d] Re: The best way get a slide bar in Juneau

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I'm not sure about that, yet.  I suspect that I will be keeping and using both.

My first impression when opening the box from George, was, "My, my.  That's heavy!"   Having never dealt with any product other an my home-made plywood bar, I wasn't prepared for the weight change.  I'm not sure that I won't keep my plywood for hiking in the mountains.  The combined weight of my Pro70 and the Bogen also proves too much for my baby "ultrapod".   It can't support the combined weight and maintain the head in a level position.  The house-finance-committee is just going to love the fact that my new $40 slide bar is going to require me to go buy a $100 tripod to hold it up :)

My second thought was, how do I mark a scale on this thing?  Being pretty new to all this (been shooting pairs for a year), I find comfort in having the scale on my bar.  I start on the left, shoot one.  Then start moving to the right, taking a shot at intervals.  What that interval is depends on the subject.  Sometimes it's every 1cm, for close ups.  Sometimes its every 10cm for more distant shots.  I can get away with it because I shoot digital, and the incremental cost of another frame is nil, and then I can pick the seperation I like when I get back to my desk.  My Pro70 covers most of the Bogen, but I think I have figured out a way to scribe a scale on it so that it will be visible.  

John "Options Are Good" Thurston
Juneau, Alaska


On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:12:58 -0600 photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> John Thurston writes:
> I'm anxious to see how it stacks up against the piece of unfinished plywood
> that I've been using."
> Other than that, the
> slide bar wins hands down!
> 
> Mike Galazin