milkod2001 wrote:
Can anybody recommend some decent tripod which would hold easily A7R3 with 100-400GM? Something easy to carry and compact and within $150-200 price range. Don't need top of line tripod since im not using it that often.
You might try the Tiltall TE-224 (small) or TE-284 (large) aluminum tripod -- it's not the most elegant; but it is very well made and the company has been around forever. I bought mine (the original tall version with the 3-way tilt head which I do NOT recommend) back about 1970. It is still going strong (now with an Acratech Ultimate ball head and an RRS lever-release clamp attached). The legs will last forever. It was my very first tripod and I still use it occasionally.
You'll need to get a ball head for it; but you don't have to go overboard as I did.
And since this thread is about tripods, I have six that are pretty traditional. My others are from Gitzo (3-series & 5-series), RRS, PMG and Sachtler. Except for the Tiltall, all are CF. Heads are NPC Pro, Acratech (2), Markins, RRS, FLM, FlexShooter, Sachtler, and, soon, Burzynski. I really don't use the NPC Pro any more, but it is unusual. One of the Acratech's is permanently mounted on the Tiltall. All the others are mounted on 75mm half-balls (well, except the Sachtler, which has its 75mm half-ball built in).
Then I have an inexpensive Cullmann 3400 video tripod (very cleverly incorporating a monopod) and a four-armed monstrosity that articulates in ways that no tripod should called the bent-bolt Uni-Lok Major 1600. So, eight, in all.
milkod2001 wrote:
Can anybody recommend some decent tripod which would hold easily A7R3 with 100-400GM? Something easy to carry and compact and within $150-200 price range. Don't need top of line tripod since im not using it that often.
You might try the Tiltall TE-224 (small) or TE-284 (large) aluminum tripod -- it's not the most elegant; but it is very well made and the company has been around forever. I bought mine (the original tall version with the 3-way tilt head which I do NOT recommend) back about 1970. It is still going strong (now with an Acratech Ultimate ball head and an RRS lever-release clamp attached). The legs will last forever. It was my very first tripod and I still use it occasionally.
You'll need to get a ball head for it; but you don't have to go overboard as I did.
And since this thread is about tripods, I have six that are pretty traditional. My others are from Gitzo (3-series & 5-series), RRS, PMG and Sachtler. Except for the Tiltall, all are CF. Heads are NPC Pro, Acratech (2), Markins, RRS, FLM, FlexShooter, Sachtler, and, soon, Burzynski. I really don't use the NPC Pro any more, but it is unusual. One of the Acratech's is permanently mounted on the Tiltall. All the others are mounted on 75mm half-balls (well, except the Sachtler, which has its 75mm half-ball built in).
Then I have an inexpensive Cullmann 3400 video tripod (very cleverly incorporating a monopod) and a four-armed monstrosity that articulates in ways that no tripod should called the bent-bolt UniLok. So, eight, in all.
milkod2001 wrote:
Can anybody recommend some decent tripod which would hold easily A7R3 with 100-400GM? Something easy to carry and compact and within $150-200 price range. Don't need top of line tripod since im not using it that often.
You might try the Tiltall TE-224 (small) or TE-284 (large) aluminum tripod -- it's not the most elegant; but it is very well made and the company has been around forever. I bought mine (the original tall version with the 3-way tilt head which I do NOT recommend) back about 1970. It is still going strong (now with an Acratech Ultimate ball head and an RRS lever-release clamp attached). The legs will last forever. It was my very first tripod and I still use it occasionally.
You'll need to get a ball head for it; but you don't have to go overboard as I did.
And since this thread is about tripods, I have six. My others are from Gitzo (3-series & 5-series), RRS, PMG and Sachtler. Except for the Tiltall, all are CF. Heads are NPC Pro, Acratech (2), Markins, RRS, FLM, FlexShooter, Sachtler, and, soon, Burzynski. I really don't use the NPC Pro any more, but it is unusual. One of the Acratech's is permanently mounted on the Tiltall. All the others are mounted on 75mm half-balls (well, except the Sachtler, which has its 75mm half-ball built in).
milkod2001 wrote:
Can anybody recommend some decent tripod which would hold easily A7R3 with 100-400GM? Something easy to carry and compact and within $150-200 price range. Don't need top of line tripod since im not using it that often.
You might try the Tiltall TE-224 (small) or TE-284 (large) aluminum tripod -- it's not the most elegant; but it is very well made and the company has been around forever. I bought mine (the original tall version with the 3-way tilt head which I do NOT recommend) back about 1970. It is still going strong (now with an Acratech Ultimate ball head and an RRS lever-release clamp attached). The legs will last forever. It was my very first tripod and I still use it occasionally.
You'll need to get a ball head for it; but you don't have to go overboard as I did.
And since this thread is about tripods, I have six. My others are from Gitzo (3-series & 5-series), RRS, PMG and Sachtler. Except for the Tiltall, all are CF. Heads are NPC Pro, Acratech (2), Markins, RRS, FLM, FlexShooter, Sachtler, and, soon, Burzynski. I really don't use the NPC Pro any more, but it is unusual. One of the Acratech's is permanently mounted on the Tiltall. All the others are mounted on 75mm half-balls (well, except the Sachtler, which has its 75mm half-ball built in).
milkod2001 wrote:
Can anybody recommend some decent tripod which would hold easily A7R3 with 100-400GM? Something easy to carry and compact and within $150-200 price range. Don't need top of line tripod since im not using it that often.
You might try the Tiltall TE-224 (small) or TE-284 (large) aluminum tripod -- it's not the most elegant; but it is very well made and the company has been around forever. I bought mine (the original tall version with the 3-way tilt head which I do NOT recommend) back about 1970. It is still going strong (now with an Acratech Ultimate ball head and an RRS lever-release clamp attached). The legs will last forever. It was my very first tripod and I still use it occasionally.
You'll need to get a ball head for it; but you don't have to go overboard as I did.
And since this thread is about tripods, I have six. My others are from Gitzo (3-series & 5-series), RRS, PMG and Sachtler. Except for the Tiltall, all are CF. Heads are NPC Pro, Acratech (2), Markins, RRS, FLM, FlexShooter, Sachtler, and, soon, Burzynski. I really don't use the NPC Pro any more, but it is unusual. One of the Acratech's is permanently mounted on the Tiltall. All the others are mounted on 75mm half-balls (well, except the Sachtler, which has its 75mm half-ball built in.
milkod2001 wrote:
Can anybody recommend some decent tripod which would hold easily A7R3 with 100-400GM? Something easy to carry and compact and within $150-200 price range. Don't need top of line tripod since im not using it that often.
