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My 2 series fits diagonally in a mid sized rolling suitcase - it is a little too big to carryon that bag.Carrying ANY tripod when flying: Thanks Terry, Guy, Jack, Don & Ken for the info on your Tech camera tripod. My experience is any tripod eats up a suitcase; I have wondered about checking the tripod on a flight in a light weight tripod case...but some concerns. The other possibility is to Check a larger bag with warm clothes and tripod. When traveling by plane to a region where warm clothes may be needed for sudden weather changes my tripod seems to be the biggest problem. I can carry my electronics gear onboard, but have little room for anything else. What works for you? Thanks, Charles.
Woody,On tripods, it depends how I'm traveling and what I'm shooting. If I'm shooting with a tech camera and will have a car close by my cube permits much quicker and more precise setup than anything else that I've ever tried, and the cube really requires a 3 series. Mine is on a Gitzo 3541LS with a Gitzo leveling base.
If weight matters I use an Arca monoball P1 on a Gitzo GT 2541EX - I've used the Gitzo all over the world in a huge variety of situations.
Either way for air travel I take the head off and put it and the legs in checked luggage.
Hmmm . . Interesting - I'll try it. The head weighs about as much as the legs, but who says that can't work.Woody,
No issues with the cube on a 2 series. I haven't tried it on others.
I find that the Cube is very top heavy on my 2531 but that does have a center column. If it were mounted on a flat top plate then I'm sure that you could probably get away without it feeling like a club stick.No issues with the cube on a 2 series. I haven't tried it on others.
Hi Jack,...As indicated in the earlier posts, the Alpa lens corrector does a fantastic job of linearizing the image -- kudos to Alpa for this incredible tool!
Told you so ;-)I got off a few quick test frames -- nothing worth posting -- but have to say WOW! The 40 HR-W is a freaking laser, clearly out-resolving the IQ180 sensor across the full zeroed frame. So sharp, I had to increase my Focus Mask setting on my IQ180 to *75* to get a thin enough "green" zone to ascertain precise focus zone! Even shifted (horiz) the full 15mm, the lens remains usable to almost the full corner -- I say almost because the lens physically vignettes just before the 15mm mark, call it 12.5 of total usable horizontal shift. From about 11 or 12mm out, the lens remains very sharp, but exhibits significant curvature, so subject matter in the primary plane goes soft with the extreme shift.
Here is the workflow: Run the LCC and process the file as you normally would in C1. Then you take the output tiff to a 32 bit version of CS -- I use CS4 since it's on my machine. Now run the Alpa corrector on the tiff, and save it as a corrected version. You could do your final editing in the 32 bit CS if you wanted, but I then take that tiff to 64 bit CS, and do all of your normal post editing.Hi Jack,
Do you use the Alpa corrector in place of or in conjunction with LCC in C1?
Thanks,
Bob
Yes you certainly did! But it was hard to know just how good it was until I had the entire file in front of me to scroll through at 100% -- wear safety glasses to avoid cuts on your eyeballs!Told you so ;-)