Manfrotto MKCOMPACTADV-BK Compact Advanced Tripod with 3-Way Head (Black) – with Two ZAYKiR Quick Release Plates for The RC2 Rapid Connect Adapter

There are less expensive tripods in this class. But the three axis adjustment makes getting a perfect camera angle easy. This tripod is sturdy and light weight. When a head position is chosen and tightened down, it stays where you put it, even with a slightly unbalanced load. I definitely recommend this tripod

Don’t need to say much. Manfrotto. Really compact tripod, steady and gives you a lot of room for creativity

Great travel Tripod very stable. Don't get me wrong I have better tripods but this carries nice when traveling

and my initial experience with it has been positive. There are a few ways in which it feels less stiff than desirable, a few hands-on-fit-and-finish issues that feel a bit of cheapness, but overall it's well worth what we paid for it. And I freely admit - ignoring price - that the only way it could be made stiffer would be to increase the cost of making it a fair bit, and the weight would go up. One of my shopping criteria for this was weight, as I expect to carry it around with my camera backpack, so I didn't want a fifty pound Bogen with a cast iron fluid head big enough for an Imax camera. ^_^ My budget wouldn't have withstood that line of shopping either.For the money and weight limits, it would be hard to find a nicer tripod to actually hold and use. The leg latches are well designed so it's easy to open and close quickly with practice. The handles work as expected and smoothly. It came with several quick-releases too, which is nice; my camera, my wife's and the binoculars all have quick releases on them which can stay there, which is a lot more convenient than my first tripod, wherein you had only the 1/4-20 screw, so you tended to leave the tripod attached for the day, which always bugged me. This will be perhaps my third tripod and my wife's second.note that I also intend to use this with some nice Celestron binoculars I bought recently (see other review to come) - the binoculars came with a tripod mount which is okay, but I think I'm going to stiffen it up with some added steel or aluminum bits and a boat-load of JB Weld... which also made it hard to judge whether the tripod in question was to blame for wiggly feelings or the tripod mount from Celestron... so I can't speak to how well that works... yet.

Gift.

Met expectations! Sturdy and reliable

Buen producto

Manfroto quality is excellent. However, this product ships with a completely useless quick release plate from Zaykir. The quick release plates are slightly too small, and cannot be tightened when attached to the Manfroto heads, therefore, they wiggle when attached. The Zaykir quick release plates are going in the garbage, as I do not want to RISK my camera falling off of the quality Manfroto head and tripod.