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172 of 178 found the following review helpful:
 5 stars! Great tripod for the $$$$May 24, 2010
By VegasGar
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R140D10SL3DY6E I give it 5 stars! The tripod does tilt up and down and pan back and forth nicely (I realized that I didn't say anything about that in the video). Please see video for more details.
44 of 45 found the following review helpful:
Great Fluid Motion Tripod!Oct 20, 2010
By L7
"Tech Head"
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1TMUU2D20Z94E Excellent Tripod for the money, super fluid pan and tilt motion head.
Watch the Video samples I provided. Great for both small video cameras, and large dslr cameras. Excellent price!!
20 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Smooth axis and panningApr 15, 2009
By James C. Kelley
For a cheap tripod, the pan and tilt are very smooth. Wanna complain? Buy a $20 tripod from Walmart and try to pan smoothly with it. Wanna moan? Buy a pro tripod for a couple bills and moan about how thin your wallet has become.
This tripod is a good value, smooth operating - a step up from the junk tripods that are too short, too fragile and too jumpy. I gave it four stars instead of five only because there are better tripods out there if you want to spend four or five times the money.
59 of 74 found the following review helpful:
 Bah. Mostly plastic, and heavier than described.Jul 17, 2008
By A. Steckel
When I was shopping for this, one review caught my eye saying this tripod was "mostly metal." That claim, along with the light weight in the description, were the two things that sold me on the model.
Well, NEITHER ARE TRUE. This thing is indeed mostly plastic made to look like black metal. Apparently, this fooled the other reviewer, but not me. The only metal I found on the whole thing were the bars of the legs themselves, and the bar of the swivel handle. Every single other part of this thing is black plastic. All of the hinges and joints are plastic. The leg braces are plastic. The height crank is plastic (yikes!). Even the center tube is PLASTIC. Overall, it looks nice, I'll give them that; but please know that you are NOT getting a "mostly metal" tripod here. No way.
Now, that by itself wouldn't be too bad, except that you'd expect something that's nearly all plastic to be much lighter - it isn't. The part of the description that reads:
Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 5 x 4.9 inches ; 1 pounds
..is WRONG. Maybe this thing weighs 1 pound on the moon, but it's much heavier where I'll be using it, here on earth. It is, indeed, much closer to it's described shipping weight:
Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
Why the large discrepancy? Who know? Sloppiness on Amazon's part, I guess. At any rate, the weight was key for me, and there were several tripods lighter than 4 lbs which I passed up. I guess I should have trusted my instincts when they told me this was too good to be true.
Anyway, if I'm going to buy a plastic tripod, I want it to be much lighter than 4 lbs.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Great tripod, great priceMar 17, 2007
By David Hacht
I bought this tripod a short while ago, and I'm extremely glad I did. It's very light and easy to carry around, even without a carrying bag or even a handle, neither of which it comes with. The bubble level built into it is very handy to have and works well. And with a little practice, you can break and set it, camera attached, in 10 to 15 seconds (provided you keep the quick release tab screwed to the bottom of your camera, like I do), so you won't miss that once in a lifetime shot. It's also very inexpensive and easy to use, with a head that has a fantastic range of movement. And while the legs, when fully extended, don't bring it all the way up to eye level, it brings it close enough to keep you comfortable while looking through the camera. If need be, just buy a small folding travel chair to carry with you and use with the tripod.
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