Really Right Stuff

[tangaroa67]

Hi,

Does anyone know of anyone selling RRS stuff here in Thailand? I know they don't have a Thai distributor, but I wondered if there was perhaps someone selling their stuff on the grey market.

[guzzi850m2]

What is RRS?

According to Wiki:

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RRS may stand for:

• Racing Rules of Sailing, a set of rules governing the conduct of yacht racing, windsurfing and many other forms of racing with wind-powered vessels
• Railroad Station, see Train Station
• Rapid Response Services, a humanitarian logistics service operating in Darfur
• Rational Response Squad
• Reaction Research Society
• Red River Shootout, an annual football game between University of Texas and University of Oklahoma
• Relative rate of spoilage, a mathematical model used to predict the shelf life of some food products
• Rentsys Recovery Services, a provider of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions
• Resource Recovery Services (z/OS feature)
• Reutech Radar Systems
• Royal Regiment of Scotland
• Royal Research Ship
• Ryan Rowland-Smith, a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners
• The IATA airport code for Røros Airport
• Realistic Robot Simulation, a joint project between robot manufacturers and suppliers of robot simulation software

[tangaroa67]

Apologies. Really Right Stuff (RRS) is a tripod manufacturer. I'm looking for one of these, which due to the cost (and another forum member's negative shipping experience), I'm reluctant to have shipped from the States.

http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/TVC-34L-Tripod-with-Full-Gimbal-Head

[guzzi850m2]

Top shelf tripod by the looks at it (and the price, holy cow man).

I just bought a tripod for 890 baht after I looked at one at BigCamera for 14500 baht and thought to myself; that is the bloody same as I paid for my used X-Pro1 body, no bloody way am I gonna pay that .

Good enough for me since I am a Sunday photographer

May I ask tangaroa67; I seen some of your night shoots here and they are mostly awesome, are you a pro?

[tangaroa67]

Thanks, @guzzi850m2 ! No, I'm not a 'pro'

[Curt1591]

Although Really Right Stuff is often overkill, there is a lot ro be said for buying quality equipment. Gimbals are nirmally used on heavy, long focal length lenses, lenses that can easily be worth manynrhousands of dollars. In this case, one wants a head that is bullet proof.

That said, I haven't seen any RRS in Bangkok.

[tangaroa67]

I've been down the path of buying both cheaper and lighter tripods. I'm looking to buy something bulletproof that'll pretty much outlive me :-)

As for the gimbal, I'm looking to do multi-row panoramas, as well as keeping a level horizon on the rare occasion I shoot sports/wildlife.

[quiksilva]

I've been looking at them too, so far only found sources online...