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Hybrid Tiltall Thoughts
Thank you Ellen for your questions regarding Tiltall for birding. Several ideas with notes:A - The original stock Tiltall head and column assembly - seemed to have gone missing in your photo of your...
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Tiltall and the amazing Anson Nordby
Dear Mr. Regester, Thank you for your response to my inquiry about obtaining a new leg for my Tiltall tripod. I am sending the entire tripod assembly to you for correct parts. In addition to the leg...
View ArticleBall Column Zen
Message: Would like to mount a ballhead to my Tiltall...is the telescoping column the only available solution? Thanks, JamesJames - "Only available solution?" I had better play it with an extra safe...
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Leitz Tiltall with Removable "Tilt All"
If there has been a single plaint these years regarding the Marchioni brothers' design, it is the non-removable Tiltall head. And for about that same length of time there has been a rumour that Leitz...
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FEET. . .the final frontier
Bear with me as the three photos here will make no sense without a lot of explanation. Many of you write me regarding foot replacement, but this is a knotty conundrum (see earlier post). I will try...
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Mark Marchioni, Pulp Artist
Who knew? Certainly not I nor any other photographer. But our own Mark Marchioni of Tiltall fame was first a well trained and well known "Pulp Artist" who began commercial illlustration from the mid...
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NEW Telescoping Headless Column
UPDATE OCTOBER 28th: Our NEW, but long delayed, headless telescoping columns (details below) together with our re-supply of TEP handles (black only and NO TEP4s - option? the tapered TEP1) and other...
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KingHome Handles (now) with Marchioni Threads (then)
Not only the original Marchioni. The next two iterations, Leitz and StarD, also have the long threads. When ordering the top handles (TEP-1, 2) for the camera platform, note that the Marchioni...
View ArticleBallhead 201 - Separating the head from the column
I will be posting some answers to frequent questions here for a couple of weeks and then will move those comments to my new FAQ page - link at the column to the right under "Order Parts"...
View ArticleWhat happened to TEP3 and other esoterica.
I will be posting some answers to frequent questions here for a couple of weeks and then will move those comments to my new FAQ page here - see to the right under "Order Parts" etc. -------------Bill-...
View ArticleGUNK! Who knew?
Dear Tiltallers- we may have discovered a new evil - gunk backs up into the hole in the threaded TEP handles effectively shortening the length of the hole - follow this logic - 'cause its literally...
View Article"Extending" current TEP handles
As in earlier blog posts the current TEP handles are not tapped deep enough for the length of the earlier bolts used in the Tiltall made by the original Marchioni design, nor the iterations by Leitz...
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Notes on adapting current handles to Leitz Tiltall
See enclosed for some photos of my old Leitz Tiltall. The model is #4602 and is an E. Leitz product made in Rockleigh, NJ. It was purchased used in 1979 ($60.00) and I have had it since then. The new...
View ArticleEspecially Tiltall feet and leg bushings. . .
I answer this question weekly. OK, not every week, but every third week. Current production of feet and leg bushings, in particular - see the many and several previous blog posts - DO NOT match the...
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Leica Quarterly re: Tiltall 1982
From Gordon Brown, Boulder, Colorado- For your collection, a scan of an article promoting Leitz Tiltall tripods. The July 1982 article in the Leica Quarterly includes part numbers. I recently found 10...
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TEP1 handle in hand - backorders shipping today
We now have very good inventory in the single handle I offer - the TEP1. Some of you have inquired a good time ago. Please re-send your interest and address (see list at end of post). Handles are...
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Tiltall's Secret Monopod
Following note written in response to a recent request for a threaded joiner between the removeable leg and the center column/head. Great idea, never have seen such a nexus and any of you machinists...
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Eyelet at the base (and top) of the Tiltall column
There is a perennial thought to carry a Tiltall tripod with a clip-on camera strap attached to the Tiltall column - top and bottom. Either by using my headless column offering or with the Tiltalls...
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Continued innovation - Stephen Haverl
Here’s my version of the Tiltall conversion mount. The 1.25 “ aluminum column is epoxied into a deep round mortise that also is where the 3/8 stud is mounted. The top plate is oak cross laminated to 1...
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Side Arm - Easy
Click to enlarge.A] Remember when we said "Buy our 'headless' monocolumn option to add a monoball, gimbal or fluid head to the classic Tiltall tripod. Especially, for those who did not want to destroy...
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Cleaning the Four Handles' Hidden "Stems"
At right, my "bevy" of the original Machioni Tiltalls are, of course, the oldest in my collection of not more than forty Tiltalls [the limit made by my wiser better half]. Here are some thoughts on...
View ArticleNotes on column bushings [and secret travel tip]
Good question from Singapore - "Will likely purchase the headless column from you. Is it an easy install? Could you send a photo of the column brushings?"Good choice Lietz. So your questions - ease of...
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Tiltall - the next generation.
Casper, Wyoming, 10:15 am August 21, 2017 - count down to eclipse. Photo by Lou Berlin. His notes: The 3" f/5 Newtonian telescope is a "homebuilt" telescope which means I made the mirror at the Adler...
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Looking for a Tiltall "foot"? go Cannibal!
My answers to an occasional inquiry, but lately, one coming more frequently. Where to find a replacement foot for a Tiltall?That, as I say here, "is a knotty conundrum" with no perfect answer. And,...
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