I have found a Manfrotto 144B with 222 head and am considering buying it. Does anyone know if the tripod is a good one and will it be an upgrade over my current Velbon Sherpa 450N? What I am particularly interested in is how low it will go, the velbon is quite high, even at its lowest hight. My current heaviest setup is a 20D with canon 75-300mm lens but I am hoping to buy a sigma 100-300mm f/4 lens in the near future. Does anyone know if the tripod will be acceptable for this.
I know there are those of you out there who will immediately say forget it and buy something expensive but my budget will simply not stretch far and I desperately want the lens and I am still saving for that.
Thanks
Toby
I've owned this model for 12 years: it's a pretty heavy tripod, measures 1,80 meter fully extended with a small ball head or 0,7 m when folded and compacted. It weights 2.75 Kgs with a Manfrotto 352 ball head.
It's made of aluminium. Quite stable and rock solid through the years, but not really the kind of tripod to go hiking with.I used to shoot with an old Eos 5D and 28-80 L 28/40 (as heavy as the new 24-70L) and no vibration occured.
