Five Days in Sibiu, Romania

In June 2014, I had the opportunity to spend five days in Sibiu, Romania. On two of those, I strolled through the beautiful historic downtown and took a series of photos. The full set of the best 38 pictures is available as a hardcover book (letter-size, landscape) at Lulu.com. Below, I'm sharing 19 of these. Prints of individual images are available by request from Markus[dot]Wobisch[at]gmail[dot]com.

Prints of individual images are available by request from Markus[dot]Wobisch[at]gmail[dot]com.
The full set of 38 pictures is also available as a hardcover book (letter-size, landscape) at Lulu.com.

A photo slideshow of all images from the book is on YouTube:

Minette Elevator Tripod S-3, made in Japan

Recently, I found this in a thrift store: A "Minette Elevator Tripod S-3", made in Japan. In the original packaging and like new.
Surprisingly, I can not find any real information on the web. Nobody offers this on Ebay, and a Google search finds almost nothing. One page suggests that it was made in the 60's (but I'm not basing any judgement on a single web page). In any case, it come from a time before there were UPC codes and when things were built differently. All steel, no plastic. 

It's not necessarily better than modern ones - just different. I love it for that!

If somebody has any information about this tripod, I would be really interested! Please contact me, or use the comments. Thanks!