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Ries Tripods and Tripod Heads

Ries Tripods and Heads have been the benchmark of Fine Art Photographers for over a century.  Our products are specifically designed within three distinctive formats; SLR / DSLR Format (formerly 35mm), Medium format, Large Format, Banquet Format and Ultra Large Format.

How to pick your Tripod and Head?

There are many different formats in film and digital cameras.  Here is some guidance to these formats.

What is your Format?

SLR and DSLR Format (formerly 135 film) – The size of the 135 film frame has been adopted by many high-end digital single-lens reflex and digital mirrorless cameras, commonly referred to as “full frame“.

• Suggested Tripod H100 or H100-2
• Suggested Head Acratech GPS Ball head

Medium Format – Medium format has traditionally referred to a film format in still photography and the related cameras and equipment that use film. Nowadays, the term applies to film and digital cameras that record images on media larger than 24 mm × 36 mm (0.94 in × 1.42 in) (full-frame) (used in 35 mm (1.4 in) photography), but smaller than 4 in × 5 in (100 mm × 130 mm) (which is considered to be large format photography).

• Suggested Tripod J100 or J100-2
• Suggested Head J200 Single Tilt Head or J250 Double Tilt Head

Large Format – Large format refers to any imaging format of 4×5 inches (102×127 mm) to 8X10 inches (20×25 cm)

From 4X5 Inches to 5X7 Inches

• Suggested Tripod J100 or J100-2
• Suggested Head J200 Single Tilt Head or J250 Double Tilt Head

From 5X7 to 8X10 and some lighter 11X14 cameras, like Chamonix

• Suggested Tripod A100
• Suggested Head A200 Single Tilt Head or A250 Double Tilt Head

Panoramic Format – panoramic or “banquet” formats (such as 4×10 and 8×20 inches).  Though this format can include medium format films and large format films it requires much more stability, as you would find in a large format.

For Widths up to 12 inches

• Suggested Tripod J100 or J100-2
• Suggested Head J200 Single Tilt Head or J250 Double Tilt Head

Or for 8X20 Inches and over, up to 48 inches (yes, they do exist)

• Suggested Tripod A100-2
• Suggested Head A200-2 Single Tilt Head or A250-2 Double Tilt Head

Ultra Large Format – (ULF)  11×14, 16×20, or 20×24 inches or as large as film, plates, or cameras are available. Many ULF formats (e.g., 24×24, 36×36, and 48×48 inches) are horizontal cameras designed to make big negatives for contact printing onto press-printing plates.

• A100-2 with A200-2 Single Tilt Head or A250-2 Double Tilt Head

Ries Tripods and Tripod Heads is The King when it comes to Large Format and Ultra Large Format Photography.  No other can out perform a Ries.

Pick your Ries Tripods, Tripod Heads and Accessories

Ries Wooden Tripods

Wood tripods are specifically used to dampen noise and vibrations that effect the dynamic performance during film exposure.  Our tripods are specifically made from “tone woods” or AKA; “tonewoods”, (look it up).  The king of all tonewoods is Eastern Hard Rock Maple for tripods.  It is hard, light weight, strong and has the best vibration damping qualities of any material available.

Tripod Heads

Ries Single and Double Tilt Tripod Heads with their unique multi finger leaf clamping system are incredibly strong, sturdy, simple and most of all stable.  Ries makes all of our own parts in our factory located in Bremerton, WA, USA.

Accessories:  Monopods, Extension Legs, Leather Pads, Engraving, Camera Plates

Monopods, Tripod Bags, Leather Pads, Tripod Screws, Camera Screws, Laser engraving, Replacement Camera Plates.

All made in our own USA factory!