Well it had to happen sooner or later.

PetKal wrote in post #2354500
Consider that to be a message, a blessing really... an epiphanous opportunity to finally start shooting like a grown man: no pods, no IS.

Oh great, I have to start acting like a grown man. Next thing you are going to tell me is I have to get a real job.

belmondo wrote in post #2354519
If anyone on this forum can empathize, it's me. Two tripods, one carbon fiber, the other aluminum, but with a full Wimberly head on it.

Sorry to hear it, Doc.

Yeah, well like I say, this is the only thing in 36 years. I guess if you spread the cost out over those 36 years, it is really a bargain. The only way I can look at it.

regardless it sucks. I'm sorry you lost it... a monopod made you a professional and couldn't use it?.. jeez... I would have told them it was a cane.. .. i've never lost anything (yet). Now my cousin has misplaced my gear .. but it doesn't happen anymore.. she hasn't put a finger on anything of mine since my memory card in her driveway fiasco... .. she doesn't even ask anymore..

sari

saravrose wrote in post #2359881
regardless it sucks. I'm sorry you lost it... a monopod made you a professional and couldn't use it?.. jeez... I would have told them it was a cane.. .. i've never lost anything (yet). Now my cousin has misplaced my gear .. but it doesn't happen anymore.. she hasn't put a finger on anything of mine since my memory card in her driveway fiasco... .. she doesn't even ask anymore..

sari

Yes, I thought about that after the security guard told me I could not use it. I should have set the ballhead at an angle and used it as a cane. There probably would have been no issue. Oh well, hind sight.