World's 1st Titanium tripod system

This appears to be only of interest for still photography?
Why post it here where most users only care about motion photography?
 
Their deal seems to be the titanium ballhead. But like Mitch, when I think of "tripod" I think of tripods, not heads on top of tripods.

Anyway, a long long time ago when I worked as an assistant to a fine-art/wilderness & commercial photographer who shot large format (and sometimes medium), I hauled around his big tripod which had titanium legs. He said he had two reasons for using that tripod: (1) it didn't corrode in the wet conditions he found himself in and (2) its lighter weight didn't wipe out his assistants.

What the kickstarter people are doing looks neat. And titanium is cool. But they could use a less clickbaity/skepticism-provoking headline.
 
Jim Feeley said:
Their deal seems to be the titanium ballhead. But like Mitch, when I think of "tripod" I think of tripods, not heads on top of tripods.

Anyway, a long long time ago when I worked as an assistant to a fine-art/wilderness & commercial photographer who shot large format (and sometimes medium), I hauled around his big tripod which had titanium legs. He said he had two reasons for using that tripod: (1) it didn't corrode in the wet conditions he found himself in and (2) its lighter weight didn't wipe out his assistants.

What the kickstarter people are doing looks neat. And titanium is cool. But they could use a less clickbaity/skepticism-provoking headline.
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I agree, it looks cool. But it doesn't really solve any problems or issues that existing tools cannot. It's definitely not ground breaking or highly innovative.
 
Appears to have garnered interest as the campaign raised a ridiculous $213K of its $50K goal.
 
I do not see how this improves on existing ballheads, at all.

Kickstarter is a cesspool of crap that doesn't deserve funding, with an occasional useful item that offers a slight discount over buying it later in exchange for a long long wait with no guarantee of receiving anything at all. This falls squarely within the former - crap being sold to uninformed wannabes.
 
NorBro said:
Appears to have garnered interest as the campaign raised a ridiculous $213K of its $50K goal.
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As someone who tried to use crowdfunding to help us produce our film, this is depressing. We hit our first small goal but we easily should have achieved our ultimate funding goal.
I agree with nothing, don't see what the fuss is about. Titanium isn't that big of a deal as a material. My race bikes in the 80s had loads of aftermarket Titanium parts on them, cool but not magic.
 
nothing said:
I do not see how this improves on existing ballheads, at all.

Kickstarter is a cesspool of crap that doesn't deserve funding, with an occasional useful item that offers a slight discount over buying it later in exchange for a long long wait with no guarantee of receiving anything at all. This falls squarely within the former - crap being sold to uninformed wannabes.
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I participated in the Kickstarter for Hive's 100-C(actually got in before the Kickstarter went live), but they were an established company already manufacturing and selling professional lighting to the industry. I think I saved $200 per light vs. the street price(not insignificant). BUT on the same side of that coin, look at Digital Sputnik and their Voyager Kickstarter*. Real company already selling professional lighting, but the majority of the people still have not received their lights for a campaign that is probably two years old. I saw a poster on RedUser say just a few weeks ago that he was in the 160's out of 500 and he still hadn't received his lights.

It may be a fine ball head, but they're selling fairy dust...

*Actually Indiegogo, but same idea.
 
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