ARCA-SWISS C1 Cube - 85th Anniverisay Special

[tashley]

So, I'm packing my gear and I am laughing pretty hard because in all of my stuff I can't find a pouch that fits the cube :ROTFL::ROTFL: :ROTFL:

Using a lens wrap, which still keeps me well below the Arca price, but the cube really literally is a square peg in a round hole problem

A Gucci shoe bag works well....

 

[Terry]

Good idea but I will have to slum it with a Prada shoe bag. Although come to think of it I do have shoe bags from Coach and the instruction "manual" does talk about the special coach leather pouch.

 

[Terry]

What the cube was not meant to do! Birds and other wildlife that actually moves!

I have at least 16 gig worth of puffins to sort through downloading now....

 

[Jack]

AWESOME Puffin shot Terry!!!

 

[Dale Allyn]

AWESOME Puffin shot Terry!!!

Agreed! And I Love the greedy mouthful!

 

[Don Libby]

Terry - Great shot!

Were you ground level?

 

[Terry]

Thanks Jack - taking the trek up to go and see the puffins at feeding time is an amazing experience. I've just posted some shots of how we got there on the Greetings from Iceland thread.

Dale - actually what I learned is that puffins have a spike in their tongue and they spike the little eels so that they can carry a lot back to feed to the young. So this is feeding time for the babies. They just are protective of their nests and don't want to reveal where they are going so they will hang out for a bit with dinner!

Don, yes on some of these I was lying flat on the ground with no tripod. But many are at tripod height. Overall we were quite high up. I'm posting shots of how we got there on the "greetings from Iceland" thread.

 

[Dale Allyn]

Terry, I figured the heavy feed bag was for the kiddies, but I didn't know about the spiked tongue. Thanks. I learned something... again.

 

[David K]

Great shots Terry... really terrific.

 

[tashley]

Fab Terry, really great - and hope Iceland is as exciting for you as it was for me! Those fish in the Puffin's beak look familiar.... though this one was taken on a rather shakier rig in what I call BC (Before Cube....)

;-)

Tim

 

[etrump]

Having already spent way more than my budget on gear this year I just can't justify this expense. I thought I would try the Gitzo geared head and for $165 I am very pleased. I put my RRS pano clamp on the top to complete the package.

Having used it for a few weeks I can really see the advantages of a geared head for landscape work.

 

[arashm]

Gitzo makes a gear head?
would you mind posting an image of it.
thank you
am

 

[GrahamWelland]

"Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here."

Damn ... resistance WAS futile ... my new Cube is somewhere between CI and Vancouver now

I'm doing a lot better with resisting the return to a MFDB, thankfully. :ROTFL:

 

[Terry]

Just got back from Iceland. Love the cube. The only straightening needed were on my handheld shots. Cube makes life easy however, it isn't exactly light. So when carrying my backpack with and without tripod, there was a pretty big difference in the feeling.

 

[cmb_]

Welcome Home Terry!!!

 

[tashley]

Just got back from Iceland. Love the cube. The only straightening needed were on my handheld shots. Cube makes life easy however, it isn't exactly light. So when carrying my backpack with and without tripod, there was a pretty big difference in the feeling.

WE WANT PICTURES!

 

[Terry]

WE WANT PICTURES!

Ahhhhhh you just need to look a little harder!

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8905&page=3

 

[stephengilbert]

am,

"Gitzo makes a gear head? Would you mind posting an image of it?"

Any photo of Guy Mancuso would do. :angel:

Steve

 

[GrahamWelland]

Re: ARCA-SWISS C1 Cube - 85th Anniversary Special

My new CUBE arrived today - woo hoo!

One thing I did notice is that Arca seem to have redesigned the QR significantly compared to the clamp that came with my B1. It still has the fiddly adjuster but seems to have two sets of jaws. Was this one of the new features of the anniversary editiion or has this been shipping for a while? It seems a lot better designed this time and if I'm not mistaken the lever seems a bit more rigid too.

It's a beast isn't it? :thumbs:

 

[Clawery]

We will have 6+ Cubes coming in next week and they are not spoken for!! If you would like to reverse one, please give us a call.

Chris Lawery (e-mail Me)
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