Hitchhiking & Outdoors with the DVX

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Kandinsky

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Hi everybody, I am looking for a second tripod to carry in my backpack for outdoor use with the DVX. The tripod has too be as light as possible since I will be carrying it for many hours on my back (plus other types of equipement and food). Of course it has to be stable, but not necessarily "truly fluid" like the 503 head for example. Did anybody have any kind of experience with this type of outdoor shoot ?

I currently own a bogen 755B with a 501 head, a tripod that I am very pleased with but it is definitely too heavy to carry it all alone with the camera and all the other stuff I need during an expedition.

I looked at the bogen 718 and 718SHB, but how stable do you think these two are ? Anybody ever used them combined with the DVX ?

Thanks alot !
 
Miller SoloDV is an awesome, lightweight tripod that sells for about $1200. Gitzo makes some pretty nice carbon fiber legs, but I personally don't like any of their lightweight heads.

Hope this helps.
 
I always get a giggle of those "adventure-channel" productions of the "lone adventurer" climbing a mountain or hacking their way through a jungle and barely surviving.

Then when you see the credits you realize that there was another guy (not a crew) who not only did what the "adventurer" did, but also carried all the video equipment, batteries, tripod, had to worry about equipment getting damaged, getting the rights shots and inserts, etc. He had to run ahead of the "adventurer" to show him struggling up a muddy path; then across the valley to get that long shot, then run back for the close-up.

Knowing most shooters, he was probably also chain-smoking, and every night made a mad dash the nearest village to get ****-faced before crawling back to his tent for an hour or two of shut-eye.

Who's the real adventurer?
 
"and every night made a mad dash the nearest village to get ****-faced"
LOL.

I was deffiantly impressed by "Everest" - which was an IMAX (yes 70mm film) movie about a guy climing everest. - There where a coupel fo crew members, and they had a spacially made camera, but i still bow to them any day.

Manfrotto (Bogen) has a really light wieght small CarbonFiber set of legs that seem preaty nice. I haven't used them in the field, but in a showroom a little. They seem to work nice. - It's a very compact pod, very short. And the legs at 4-section telescoping so you still get near normal height.

- Mikko.
 
what about a good monopod? seems like that would be easier to carry and use in the field unless you want to put yourself in the shot...
 
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