Re: [Rollei] What's your favourite tripod?

["Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a tiltall? Is it a brand or a design?

Jayanand
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim  >
To: <rollei  
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Rollei] What's your favourite tripod?


>
> Not true in my case, I have an original Marchioni Tiltall and a very
> recent Omicron Tiltall and I see no real difference.
>
> I did have an asian Tiltall copy roughly 30+ years ago which worked
> fine... its finish was a little rough.
> -- 
>
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>
>
>
> dshea   wrote:
> >
> > Dennis,
> > The original Tiltalls and the Tiltalls built by E.Leitz are of very
good
> > quality. However, the Tiltall being sold new today is quite
inferior -- it
> > is a Tiltall in name only. You need to find an early model to judge
them
> > fairly.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Doug
> >
>

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