(closing date for entries - May 31st, 2008)


We developed the Manfrotto 190 tripod in the early 1980s and first exposed it to the world's photographers in 1984; we tinted it in 1996; retouched it in 2000; focused on it again in 2002; re-formatted it in 2004; color-corrected it in 2005 and completely re-developed it in 2006.
Optimized in 2008 with the launch of the 190CX Carbon Fiber models, the 190 is still our most popular tripod.

And what better way to celebrate the launch of our latest and greatest model and its quarter-century of heritage than with a photographic museum dedicated to the "story so far" of the 190, with images of the heritage 190 tripods submitted by Manfrotto 190 users and friends?

We'd like you to send us your photographs of the most-aged, hardest-working, best-loved old 190 tripods out there and we'll be giving away a total of 11 brand new 190CX tripods as prizes for the best images we receive for the following categories:


THE AWARDS:
subject: 190 tripods in general
prizes: 3 x 190CX tripod
subject: 190 tripods shown "in use"
prizes: 3 x 190CX tripod

SPECIAL PHOTOKINA AWARDS:
subject: the most worn (out) 190
prize: 1 x 190CX tripod
subject: the best kept 190
prize: 1 x 190CX tripod
subject: the oldest 190
prize: 1 x 190CX tripod
subject: the most extreme documented use of a 190
prize: 1 x 190CX tripod

To win one of the Photokina Awards, you must also be able, if your photo is chosen, to lend us the physical tripod depicted in the photograph so we can exhibit it at Manfrotto's HQ in Italy and on the Manfrotto stand at the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany which takes place between the 23rd and 28th September 2008. The tripod will remain your property, and after the loan will be returned to you (unless you don't want it back after using the 190CX we send you!).

SPECIAL flickr AWARD
subject: flickr "interestingness" award
prize: 1 x 190CX tripod

This flickr-only award is open solely to photographs of 190 tripods tagged in flickr with "190cxoperationmuseum", and will be judged on the flickr "interestingess" rating of competing photos at the closing date of May 31st, 2008. To find the winner, we'll (probably) use flickriver.com's "search by tags" feature, ordering the list of photographs by interestingness - the first photo wins, as long as it does actually show a 190 tripod.


Click here for details.