Quote Originally Posted by Richard Lane View Post
Just to be clear, I was recommending the Feisol "Tournament Series" in my initial post. I'm less familiar with the "Classic Series" that you're looking at. But, you should also try to stay within your budget.

http://www.feisol.net/rapid-tripods-...ds-c-1_14.html


http://www.feisol.net/manuals/FEISOL...nt_Version.pdf


After you do some more research and narrow things down, then post again.


Rich

Rich, thanks once again for all the information and links. You've been extremely generous with your advice and info. After going through them all, I'm starting to zero in on a direction. I've read a lot of people's feedback on paying a premium upfront to avoid paying more afterwards because of poor quality or poor performance. Based on this, my new thinking is to go with the following setup:

- Gitzo 2531
- Kirk BH-1 (comes with arca swiss style clamp)
- Wimberley P5 (for my 5D2)
- Wimberley P20 (for my 70-200 f2.8L)

This will run me about $1200 with shipping and taxes. It's more than I planned as a budget. But I'd rather spend this once than get something cheaper and eventually upgrade to a setup like this later. Let me know what you think of this setup and if I should consider something else given my planned budget just increased. Thanks again!