Giottos VGRN9255 Vitruvian Aluminium Tripod with MH5400-652 Ball Head

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Customer Reviews of Giottos VGRN9255 Vitruvian Aluminium Tripod with MH5400-652 Ball Head

Reviewed by DC
Top quality.

I am not much of a tripod person but I do like to tinker with long exposure pictures each and every now and then and right after my old tripod wilted under the fat of my D5100 and eighteen-200mm lens, it was time to commit in a new one particular.I was drawn to this tripod due to the fact of its reverse leg engineering and its potential to fold down to 40cm – it will even in shape in my Lowepro Compuday 250 backpack! The ball head is superb, it’s easy, fluid and locks in location firmly keeping my camera in any position with out slipping and the horizontal pan is useful for panoramic/movie function. The monopod operate is a great characteristic as well, just unscrew one particular of the legs and connect the central column to it. It will come in a very great little padded bag that has a shoulder strap, as effectively with a established of Allen keys and a smaller central column.I was struggling to justify shelling out £170 on a tripod but I am glad I did – this genuinely is a properly developed, good quality piece of package that I anticipate will last numerous years without having dilemma.

Reviewed by MR T.
Enjoy at first sight!!

I even now cant believe it can be so little (40 cm) and tall adequate even for me. (I am about 6/4-six/five)It is brilliantly made and even with the have scenario suits in a backpack (if you do not or can not ((plane)) want to carry separately)Feels strong and sturdy sufficient for any digital camera lens combo.The built in monopod is fantastic when you are unable to use a tripod. (because of constraints or absence of space)Just depart the rest in your bag and voila you received prolonged exposure help and no one particular can complain.The ball head operates fantastic and acquired 3 constructed in spirit amounts.You can go the camera in to any angle and tighten one locking knob.But you also got yet another locking knob just for panning.In situation if you got the digicam in right place and you just want to do 360 vid or make a panoramic pic.You get an further (shorter) middle column for the monopod use i guess and to get the least expensive placement when the digital camera experiencing upwards. I do not believe that I will use it because it is simpler to make the monopod shorter (collapse a single part) or switch the column upside down than to alter the ball head on the centre columns. But it truly is nice to have it as an alternative and matches in to the scenario.You also acquired a number of Allen keys coming with the tripod. So you can tighten or dismantle all the parts very easily.The locking program of the legs are quickly and effortless to use. Twist (open) and twist (locked).That is a single of the motives why I selected this over the Manfrotto tripods.legs got screw in rubber feet that can be modified to rubber ft with spike but these does not arrive with the kit.All in all I could not be happier with this acquire.Amazon as always created my working day with the fast and trackable delivery.If you want to spend in to a excellent tripod I certainly advocate it!Do not purchase low-cost crap due to the fact you likely to end up shelling out more and a lot more and ultimately you heading to get the quality a single anyway.(and low-cost types not as inexpensive as the create top quality of them)

Reviewed by Rafal
Great value for cash. four.five details out of five for me.

It is a good quality tripod. It looks to be idea for travelling. That`s the principal cause I bought it for. My current Manfrotto 190 aluminium is a little bit also large to consider on vacation. I could not justify spending a lot more funds for the carbon version of this (giottos) tripod. The price boost to the sum of fat saved does not appear appealing to me. I have performed around with it, comparing it to my existing tripod (Manfrotto) and I do not regret acquiring it.I have tested it with this set up: Canon 7D + grip with 2 batteries, 24-105mm L F4 lens, flash gun with 4 AA rechargeable batteries. Legs extended to the max. I believe if you are to use this tripod you will have to use a 2secs or 10 secs delay amongst urgent the shutter release and getting the pic, normally there is a opportunity that you may well get a tiny shake of the camera. You almost certainly will uncover by yourself employing the hook at the base of the central column or like me setting the camera for a delayed shutter launch and urgent the tripod with one particular hand to make it a lot more stable. This seems to operate for me, that`s what I have been doing with Manfrotto. Giottos gets a small bit far more stable when you do not lengthen the extremely bottom leg extensions.The tripod has only two angles for placing the legs. A single for normal photography and one particular for macro pictures or if you want to established the tripod really carefully to the floor. It would be wonderful if it had a middle setting so the legs could be distribute somewhat broader to get much better steadiness but nevertheless maintaining the reasonable top of the tripod (Manfrottos one hundred ninety has more leg angles). You can regulate with the allen keys (supplied) the resistance of the legs. It seems like that if you open and near the legs a good deal the nuts turn into less tight but not to the point when you could loose nuts. You only discover that the legs shut with considerably less pressure. You will have to have the allen keys with you at all time or possibly tighten the nuts to the max prior to heading out on a journey.So I believe, Manfrotto is a bit far more secure tripod but since Giottos can be folded into very manageable bundle, it wins for me in terms of a tripod for excursions lengthier than a working day. I am quite pleased to get Giottos to the mountains or on a bicycle trip. My digital camera, lens and so forth are relatively hefty so if you are using considerably less chunky tools you are heading to be much more pleased with the tripod

Features and Specifications

• Item Weight:

  499 g

• Boxed-product Weight: 2.3 Kg
• Item model number: GTVGRN9255-5400-652
• ASIN: B005FX2XQG
• Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 6 Feb 2012

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