The tripod is incredibly long undress (170cm) or felt even more. That was a fairly important reason to buy for me. The processing is very valuable. The material is light, and the upper tubes coated with a special type of foam, so that you lose any grip if you want to move it fast times. With the help of the arm above one can easily the tripod up and down move, a screw at the edge loosens the rotation if you want to swing from left to right and another screw can tilt it 90 degrees (for vertical-format shooting). With regard to the pan, so I think it's actually very good usable for video use, since it does not hakelt it. Thanks release plate with a small ring to it, you can screw the plate very quickly under a different camera, if you want. This I find very pleasant, as my old Vanguard tripod piece under another Cam always had to be screwed with a 5 cents - quite annoying from time to time. All screws and clips are very pleasant processed securely. Cullmann are 10 year warranty on the tripod - I bet and hope they do not do that for no reason, but because they know that it does not come in front of excessive wear. Price Technically, I can not say much. Sure, there are stands of 300 and also which for 50, but this is certainly noticeably more solid than my 50 Vanguard and please excuse the opinion, not so much worse than a 300 tripod of other quality manufacturers. I really recommend kanns.