Riestripod.com Website Review

Since 1936, Ries quality wooden tripods has been and always will be made in the USA. We take great care in the production quality of our components. We make all of our parts right here in our factory in Washington State. We have the proud distinction in history as being the benchmark in photography. The great masters, Ansel Adams and Cole Weston, always used Ries Products. The current legends, such as Tillman Crane and Mike Smith all swear by their Ries Products. You can even view photos Ries Tripod has always been the choice for fine art photography. Not just because of it’s elegance but because of it’s tonal response to vibration. For the same reasons that fine musical instruments are made from wood, we also make our tripods from wood to reduce vibration We believe in quality and build that into our products. We are world renowned for our customer service and we want to be partners with our customers. Ries may not be the first tripod that you buy but we would like to be the last. Please Contact In fact over sixty percent of all of our tripods made are actually used in testing laboratories for supporting sensitive equipment.  All DURABILITY~ Wood is one of the most fatigue resistant materials on earth, simply because it used to be a tree. Trees have a structural makeup that resists constant bending and twisting from the wind for their entire life. As a result, wood has a remarkable fatigue life conditions with equipment mounted to them. Imagine twenty-four hours a day for years all around the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from deserts to the tropics. Even in salt water. All Ries tripods are finished with a specifically designed and formulated patented finish to protect the wood in all environments. The Ries tripod is unaffected by hot, wet or cold environments. Our tripod is impervious wood components is a fraction of that required for any metal or synthetic material. Our wood varieties come from renewable managed commercial forests. As we know, metals and carbon-based materials result in the depletion of non-renewable and limited resources. Ries