I went to a camera store at lunch today to get a grey card (they were out of stock) and I was looking at their Manfrotto tripods. They feel NOTHING like the $15 Vivitar tripod I got at Wal-Mart a few years ago.

I guess really good tripods you buy in two pieces. You buy the legs separately and you buy the head that the camera attaches to separately. The few I glanced at were priced about $100 for each component. But they felt amazing. Perfectly machined. Everything glided and snapped into place very precisely. It sounds weird to go on about a tripod like this, but it's one of those things were you won’t get it until you actually hold one. One of these days…