{"product_id":"rowi-ukv-modular-camera-clamp-tripod-set","title":"Rowi UKV Modular Camera Tripod Set","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. This camera support kit is in near perfect condition. It works and comes with the original case. Keep scrolling for the full story or skip to the two pictures (it was a busy day and we ran out of time).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Widmer built the Rowi* UKV somewhere in the German postwar machine-hum of Neuburg an der Donau, sometime in the 1960s if the block lettering and ribbed leg finishes are telling the truth, which they are, because precision always tells the truth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 1.2 kilograms, it's the kind of kit that makes you wonder why we ever trusted anything heavier: a Z clamping tube, an E ground spike, a W distribution cube, a U ball-and-socket head that locks in a single 90-degree turn with the satisfaction of an argument won cleanly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClamp it to a fence, spike it into the earth, mount it to a tree. It doesn't care much, because it was built not for convenience but for conviction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt has no serial numbers, no individual identity, nothing so vulgar as a biography, and yet it will outlast your carbon-fibre contraption from the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/rangefinders-for-purists\" title=\"Shop our rangefinder film cameras\"\u003ecamera\u003c\/a\u003e shop with its touchscreen collar and its pitiful little Instagram ambitions. The Rowi UKV was built for conviction, not convenience, which puts it in exceedingly rare company.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*ROWI, named, mercifully, for its founder Robert Widmer, started around 1922, but rose to fame in post-war Bavaria with the conviction that if a thing was worth making, it was worth making out of metal and making to last until everyone you knew was dead. While Leica was busy being famous, ROWI was busy being useful, producing \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/supports\" title=\"Shop our tripods, monopods and supports\"\u003emounts\u003c\/a\u003e engineered to attach cameras to trees and automobiles, which says everything one needs to know about the 1940s.Their \"Photo-Kino Zubehoer\" catalogs were, this writer suspects, the only German literature of the period one could read without a schnapps. The Neuburg factory has since gone the way of all things sensible, but the hardware endures on the secondary market, outlasting its owners with what can only be described as poor sportsmanship.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268477825211,"sku":"35MM-ROWI-100219","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_a9f66e8c-8340-490f-86b1-348f5f80d929.jpg?v=1787093551","url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/products\/rowi-ukv-modular-camera-clamp-tripod-set","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}