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Re: [OM] Stringpod

Subject: Re: [OM] Stringpod
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:32:11 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Jim Terazawa <jimt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jim Terazawa wrote:

|I saw an article of a 'stringpod' on Pop Photography magazine a few months ago.
|Isn't it basically one end of a string tied to the base of the camera body and 
other
|end inserted under your foot between the ground so that you can create this 
'tension'
|to help steady the vertical motion of the camera body in z-axis(perpendicular 
to gnd)?

This is how the chainpod works; I imagine a stringpod is the
same but lighter.

|> On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Clive Warren wrote:
|> 
|> |At 4:57 pm -0400 23/4/98, *- DORIS FANG -* wrote:
|> |
|> |>  I lug around either a short or long Tilt-all. The short one with a lg.
|> |>Leitz ball head. For table tripods, I use a Minolta TR-1 and a Polaroid
|> |>(both Leitz rip-offs, but much lighter), and of course, a stringpod.
|> |>
|> |>                                 *= Doris Fang =*
|> |
|> |
|> |OK Doris, I'll bite on that one - a stringpod?
|> |
|> |Straight faced waiting for the sucker punch......
|> 
|> Is this a lightweight version of a chainpod?
|> 
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