OwlsEyes wrote: sjms wrote: OwlsEyes wrote:
My Gitzo 1325 failed in a similar location without the corrosion. The bracket did not crack, but the leg became loose and was no longer reliable. I sent it in for repair and a new CF leg was swapped in for the old leg. Gitzo took nearly 3 months for the repair, indicated the CF leg cracked in the interface between the top plate and leg. Price was nearly $300. I live in MN, shoot in frigid temps and travel to the tropics to shoot throughout Costa Rica.
I\'m assuming that the regular use and broad climatic / humidity swings caused the leg to fail.
At the price of a similar replacement tripod, $300 seemed like a bargain for the repair. The only real alternative is RRS and they are crazy expensive!
bruce
are they really?
A 58\" 3-series RRS tripod w flat plate is $925! Maybe that sounds reasonable, but a $300 repair + my original purchase price is still less than $925. I\'ve been using the same set of legs since 2003
when RRS came out with their product they decided to manufacture things different. i had used and up until recently still had Gitzo products. when i got one of the original TVC33
legsets and observed the substantial difference in manufacturing and materials i decided that it was time to divest myself of
the rest of the G product. it was a technical and business decision. it came down to assuring that there was going to be no need for a potential $300 wasted outlay later. in the balance of
things i did come out ahead.
