Berlebach

They are known for their tripods being made from ash wood (Fraxinus excelsior), and manufacture products for photography, telescopes and surveying.

After Peter Otto Berlebach retired in 1918, the company was taken over by Dittmar Biskaborn, and Heisinger, three former employees of Ernemann.

In 1972, the family business was nationalised in the GDR and renamed VEB Foto-Kino-Zubehör, supplying tripods to the entire Eastern Bloc.

In 1994 Berlebach made its first appearance at the Photokina trade fair and has since become a leading manufacterer of wooden tripods.

[citation needed] Berlebach tripods are considered to be particularly low oscillation due to the ash wood used in their production,[1][3] and are therefore used alongside heavy telephoto lenses[4] by amateur astronomers with telescopes, in astrophotography,[5] and in macrophotography.