Thank you so much for the valuable Tripod advice ,We do think tripod is indispensable as u said, in China there're many many tripod brands but few are up to the standard of professinal photography,I'm familiar the technician of a tripod manufacturing big factory(the factory's tripod and panhead and aluminium easel sells pretty good both domestic and oversea,),I know every manufacturing process & every procedure in production, a good tripod does depend on man-made combination details,of course it based on the precise mould design and machine tool cutting etc.spare parts in advanced..I believe none of the tripod factories make everything by themselves(polishing ,dieing,plastic,spray-painting,the compass and the gradienter,..etc.),,,there're some good factories in china as well,some are joint-ventures,some are domestic-own,,I do agree Gitzo Basalt &Acra-Swiss Monoball DP are thing of beauty.,,,yeah ,the good tripod and good ballhead can be very helpful for nice photo making.,,---by the way there's Int'l Imaging & Photographic equipment Expo In Shanghai fr 26/9--29/9,I'd like to see as I'll be there at that time(the Traditional Mid-autumn moon-cake days)

It's definitely my pleasure to receive so many advice fr the photographers all over the world.Tks again,our photographic group would go Tibet in this last season of 2007,do looking forward to take some good fotos and share with all respectable amateurs of photography and experts all over the world...

To be continued

Your Sincerely Mitch