Best Camera Tripod – Slik Sprint Pro II GM Tripod

Slik Sprint Pro II GM Tripod

By Slik

Camera Tripods UK

Category: Best Camera Tripod

Customer Reviews of Slik Sprint Pro II GM Tripod

Reviewed by Grandlu
Best travel tripod! Really like it!

Best vacation tripod! Light, sturdy, low-cost, quick setup, firm but straightforward to established ball head, detachable and reversible central column. Love it! Only criticism, the bloody screw of the rapid-launch mounting plate, the style is garbage, when you screw it to the digicam you deal with a really flat pan screw… so you need a screw driver or a Swiss knife to protected it to the digicam body… constantly acquired an military knife with me when I take photographs but nonetheless…

Reviewed by Tim
Small, light-weight but efficient.

With any lightweight tripod you are going to get some motion and the same is real for this tripod as well. That explained, as lengthy as you never attempt to overextend it in adverse situations, it is grand. I have had my Nikon 7000 and telephoto lens on it without having any trouble.

Reviewed by Artychoke
Horses for programs I guess

How am I supposed to rate this tripod? On the one hand it can be as solid as the proverbial jelly in a higher wind, even though on the other it is astonishingly compact and gentle, and if which is essential to you it’s probably as very good as you could hope for at the value. I have a ‘better’ tripod but it’s no use at all if it’s not with me due to the fact it is way too heavy to lug about.All the five* testimonials possibly elevated my expectations too high, and Slik never assist with their numerous webpages possibly saying that it truly is best for an SLR + telephoto zoom or only genuinely appropriate for a compact digital camera [http://www.sliktripod.co.british isles/pdf%20files/SLIK%20CATALOGUE%202012.pdf] – I think the latter is nearer the truth though the pic on the box shows it keeping an SLR with a pretty chunky lens. In actuality I am sorry to say this tripod genuinely isn’t at all reliable when entirely extended with an SLR on leading contact the digital camera and it wobbles for a number of seconds – I would envision a [D]SLR’s mirror would set it off I am blessed [?] with a Sony SLT and with that camera, or with your mirror locked up if you have a single, indoors [ie. no wind], with a remote management, it’s definitely fine and retains the digicam perfectly nicely – no slippage/drooping/dropping/slipping above, even though my camera and plastic package zooms only weigh about 1kg. The complete thing twists and flexes relatively a good deal way too. More positively, if you will not use the pencil-slim reduced leg part and only elevate the centre column 50 % way it’s genuinely relatively impressive, and if you fold out your Liquid crystal display screen it will not likely destroy your again making use of it at this peak – I knew there had to be a reason you could do that. Opposite to approved wisdom it seems greater to partly raise the centre column rather than use the previous leg section with this tripod.And it is tiny! I acquired it to cling on the aspect of my backpack while strolling and size was genuinely the overriding consideration but though I might read through all the blurb it still came as a shock just how compact and light-weight this tripod is. I considered it was little when the postman handed the package more than – then I found there was a smaller box within that, and then a smaller sized bag, and then an even more compact tripod. It really is exceptional that it extends to over typical eye degree. And this is it’s excellent gain it’s so effortless to have you is not going to leave it at house or in the vehicle and it truly is surprisingly good if you never raise it way too higher and greater than practically nothing if you do, even though I wouldn’t have faith in it in a gale.The other problem with the compactness is the very small head, and more notably the microscopic quick release plate which really does appear as though it was developed for a compact digicam. I tried swapping it for the head of my other tripod which manufactured every thing much more strong, and less difficult to use to boot, but negated the lightness so a lot I gave up on it. There are many feedback on the way the digicam tilts down a tiny following you tighten the clamp: As considerably as I can make out this motion is amongst the digital camera and this small QRP, caused by the cork flexing, instead than motion in the ball and socket by itself. I tried mounting the camera so the the plate’s more time aspect is parallel with the lens axis relatively than the sensor/movie plane and this did appear to improve matters.And if at all feasible use a distant/’cable’ release or the self-timer or you basically won’t see a lot reward. At about one/10sec,photographs I took utilizing the camera’s shutter release with the tripod at its full top have been barely significantly less blurred than hand held shots.If you acknowledge its limitations it truly is a superb vacation/hiking tripod. five* for compactness, three.five, possibly four* for solidity at waist top, but only 1* entirely prolonged, though you could probably include a star or two if you’re looking for a tripod to use with a scaled-down digital camera. “Pro” is definitely pushing it, but with out paying a fortune on a carbon fibre occupation I question you are going to find a greater tripod to carry all working day and not wish you hadn’t. The small QRP is a basically too tiny for anything at all but a compact, but attempt turning it round a quarter change. Or see if you can uncover a Sprint a hundred and fifty – I couldn’t – or perhaps contemplate the three-way head. I never really like ball heads but it saved £20 and a handful of ounces.Following all that waffle, to sum up if you know you is not going to be getting it much from property or your automobile then I’m sure there are heftier tripods that would be much better, ie. more stable, for the exact same money, but even with all the negativity, if dimensions and bodyweight are important to you then indeed I would absolutely suggest this tripod.

Features and Specifications

• Boxed-product Weight: 1.4 Kg
• Item model number: 3416
• ASIN: B000Y070GS
• Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 12 Jan 2007

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SLIK – Sprint Professional II GM

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