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Pros & Cons
Pros
This tripod is stout, tight, heavy and stays where you lock it in place. I love sturdy solid strong survivalist last forver get what you pay for kinda stuff.
Speaders prevent the legs from suddenly moving outward, which would severely damage the delicate binoculars. footprint is huge, you need 4-6 feet between each leg.
The crank part is great for fine tuning height. It is also easy to use and very adjustable. I’m keeping it at about its thinnest, it only gets more stable at the wider setting.
This thing is heavy but well worth lugging around on events like weddings. I timelapse thunderstorms so needed something sturdy that can handle wind. Yes, it's heavier and harder to carry long distances (and i'm trying to find some sort of backpacking... Read More
This tripod eliminates that for your heavier prosumer video camera. I use it mainly for mounting a slider on top and it holds the weight well with a nikon d800 and any lens.
Highlights
Quality
Very sturdy and stable professional quality tripod legs
Leg extenders slide easily and lock well nice and solid and even
They are plastic and when closing them a high amount of stress is placed on a small hinge which eventually will break
I set all of them up with a lensalign and the camera remained firmly on target for hours at a time
Price
However price was hard to swallow which is why i subtracted a star
I would strongly recommend this as the bargain of heavy duty tripods
Expensive but you get what you pay for
I heard the globetrotter mentioned but i didn’t want to spend 150 and not have success and i believe that was a bowlmount when ... Read More
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I was also looking for a new product that was not an open box return where the qr code was still on the box and not removed by ... Read More
Competitiveness
Combine with manfrotto 502hd video fluid head gives you affordable but professional video maker tripod
I had considered the triaut model which has similar overall specs but a different leg adjustinglevelling mechanism 100
The folded length is much longer than the 190x
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heavy, great, solid, sturdy and stable. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.2% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 51 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 4 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I bought this tripod primarily because i severely injured my right hand and i need the geared center column to be able to raise or lower my camera with any degree of accuracy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I set all of them up with a lensalign and the camera remained firmly on target for hours at a time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Noticeably absent was any kind of droop between adjusting the height and tightening down the center column and any movement while framing other than what i wanted and thats with the center column up about 534
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I thought my old bogen 3021 was sturdy but this puts it to shame
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Two drawbacks first the footprint is huge you need 46 feet between each leg and second its kinda heavy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its not too heavy i would carry it a couple of blocks but no way is it going up a trail
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Id give it a try if youre getting frustrated with drooping or swaying in the wind
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