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Manfrotto has a huge range of tripods from terrible to excellent, so it depends on the model. Once you try models above the 190 series they are indeed very good. Their studio and video tripods are beasts and you never have to worry about getting kicked over like featherweight CF models. However, not fun to carry and they rarely leave my studio. I greatly prefer Manfrotto's flip leg locks over those hand hurting twist locks on Gitzo tripods. After setting up a couple Gitzo I have to wait 30 minutes before I can play guitar! However, for travel and hiking I suffer with a Gitzo Traveller as there are no small enough Manfrotto CF models.
Gitzo and Manfrotto are owned by the same parent company and made in the same factory complex. The Gitzo designs seem to be slanted towards outdoors, travel and luxury whereas the Manfrotto do the low end, middle and industrial strength studio gear.
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