Product Review
I've been a photographer professionally for eight years now and I can let you know that this is the single best piece of equipment below $50 which you will ever get. Deal with the century. When you believe you want it, then for $35 you can't go wrong. At this price you could acquire two or 3 and use them as light stands for strobist style speedlight lighting and have the flexibility to point your speedlight anywhere that you'd like via the ball head. I really purchased this not for photography but to hold my pochade box for plein air painting. It is worked out great. The fact is a preferred manufacturer of pochade boxes sells an almost identical tripod for $160.00 (I've a powerful suspicion that they're manufactured in the same factory)!!! The case that it comes with would be $35 alone from other producers. When you are not positive whether or not this will hold your camera or not I assure you that you will. Anybody using a camera too heavy for this tripod has already purchased dozens of cameras and lenses and tripods and knows exactly what they have to have. This holds my D200 with speedlights and long lenses without having any issues and it will hold your dslr or point and shoot too. If you are debating between this and (Read More...)
