Not bad but not very good

The tripod is basically a combination of many and is supplied with a carrying bag that receives the Tripod Kit per se and in a separate side pocket short center column, 3 table tripod legs, 3 Allen key, a hot shoe and an associated adapter piece in the main compartment. An operating manual in German is also included. General can not say that all brakes are fitted on the stand or whether the head with non-slip rubber, so that the operator of this is very handy.

1. It will be delivered to a tripod ball head. He is fluid stored 360 ° about the central axis to lock swiveling and with a locking device. The ball can be locked with two brakes and moves unarretiert very smoothly and without hooks. The quick release plate is inserted in the head and is secured against Herrausrutschen in both directions and of course through a lateral lock also lockable. The only shortcoming is the screw in the quick-release plate that connects the drive to the camera. It is equipped with a hexagon socket and a slit up the ghost at the first use, because the hardness of the screw, is smaller than the supplied Allen key. Fortunately, it can be stated with a 5 cent piece by means of the slot in the screw head, the screw. This makes a small, abe very important component for the good result for the head naught. As should definitely be improved. The specified with 10 kg load capacity, could well come. I have my Canon 7D with battery grip and 70-200mm telephoto mounted on the head (about 4 kg), which worked fine. However, I see the given 10 Kg very skeptical, because the tripod with legs fully extended, not just is very rigid. But who can afford heavier (and thus more expensive) lenses that will surely be able to invest in a hochpreisigeres tripod.
2. The use as camera tripod I look forward to relatively relaxed because the working height with 1.30m is headless not extended center column, quite already justifiable. The maximum height of 1.56M is nice, but much too unstable. So I pull out about 10 cm, which is acceptable for me. Since the tripod legs in the upper segment part only have about 2.5 cm in diameter, the Verwindungsteifigkeit for this price segment is not unreasonable. The legs are equipped with rubber feet that can be screwed off in the field, to expose the hidden beneath arbors. However, this is better, the competition screwed because the rubber feet back to bring the mandrels to the fore.
3. The variant as Tischstativ I probably will not use, because my legs are simply too short with its 12 cm length. Well, they are used again 6 cm longer with the central part of the stand, but even that's too wobbly. With a smaller / lighter camera but this should work.
4. As a monopod can each of the three legs are used, one of which is covered at the upper segment with rubber and thus most likely is for it. But everyone should decide for themselves. On the leg used the short center column is screwed and the tripod plate is mounted from the long to the short center column. They have the option of the set screw to rotate depending on the application with or without a tripod head, so you can choose between thread 3/8 or 1/4 inch. This is a very well thought-out detail.
5. The lamps (flash) is fitted from the short tripod legs, the middle part of the stand and a long tripod. To assemble the hot shoe, you screwed the rubber foot from, an adapter on it and then said hotshoe. This works, but not exact, because the internal thread of the adapter piece has a different pitch than the thread on the stand leg. This is again such a small part of what will destroy the good impression again. See screw on the quick release plate. I do not understand that. Since I bought a good tripod for 200 euros and two parts, the total 8 maybe - cost 10 euros, ruining the entire product. Why the quality is not as consistently tested? For example, when unscrewing the rubber feet on all three legs still chips from the tapping were present. What shoud that ??? In the competition to me is that even for this class. You let produce in China, risk / destroyed jobs in Germany and delivers quality, which is ultimately to howl.
6. The carrying bag is so minimalist dimensioned that the tripod only the central column must be fully extended and complicated even legs must be folded upwards. Who uses a different head, like me a video head, which must conjure up again in order to accommodate with. 10 to 15 cm more length would have since brought more customer-friendly room. Positive is to be noted that the use, in which the short legs and short center column can be accommodated, is attached with Velcro to the bag so that when not in use, it is simply pulled off and can save something on the carrying weight.
As a conclusion it can be said that the stand is in good hands thoroughly in this price range, but two smaller components restrict the promised functionality. The award of "Super" by the photo test 3/2014 I can not understand. The tripod head is unusable due to a cheap screw and an adapter part does not fit as expected. Therefore, I give only 3 Stars. It would be desirable to ensure the quality of the product, which I think is quite feasible, but there is probably communication problems with colleagues in China ...