The Tripod syndrome

 

    The cost of good tripod for taking photographs is exuberant. Can you get by with a much cheaper one? There is a low cost one and a middle cost one. Perhaps the low cost one will do the job. It does not. It is a piece of junk, so you buy the middle cost one persuading  yourself it will be a big improvement on the low cost one. It is an improvement but it is clearly not the real thing and you know there is such available. The third purchase is the  expensive one. The marketing term is  versioning. I have witnessed this with snow shoe buying, power tool purchases, software packages and holiday excursions. I have heard of  tales of low cost guided cycling holidays where the bicycles often failed the definition of bicycle. 


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