In detail: The accessories include the pistol grip GH 100 with ball head, carrying case and Stonebag. The pistol grip itself is almost perfectly, even if you have to say that he is partially arg goes taut (not the ball joint, because that's adjustable, but the handle itself). The transport bag seems durable and swallows the tripod along with mounted pistol grip, so it is necessary no disassembly. Derdiedas Stonebag is a well rounded, because there you can all reinwerfen utensils of lens cap to car keys and nothing is lost during shooting.
To Tripod: with its abundant 2.5kg weight quite easily, the tripod acts immediately build very stable. One must not be afraid to pinch his camera on. All screw and lock pieces are smooth but sure only the installation of the pistol grip has made me suspicious: no matter how firmly you locked the handle itself, it needs a few practice runs before you have anchored the handle on itself so firmly that he not eventually loosens during operation of the ball joint and moved. Impractical, but bearable. Speaking of pain: when placing the camera absolutely sure where you holds out his fingers. The locking of the bracket snaps around quite suddenly and the small lever to open a can beat a vengeance on the thumb. A little complicated, I find the application of the pistol grip-own level below the camera mount: the exam is possible only with removed to expedite camera.
For the legs: solved very pleasing and clever is the tiltable center column. Combined with the almost freely movable and lockable legs angles and positions for any recording to be here quasi all possible. You just need to think about how to bring the tripod into the appropriate position and already one can really photograph everything from the floor about vertical macro experiments to the long exposure of the night sky. The lower part of the stand has its own spirit level. Also worth mentioning as practical: the feet can be changed anytime by simply unscrewing between rubber feet and spikes.
CONCLUSION: I am admittedly not a professional photographer, my images are pure leisure, sometimes product photos and occasionally portraits. In this sense tells me that more than 263 AltaPro to: it may be all I need is stable, sufficiently light and flexible than any other tripod, which I have previously used. Combined with the pistol grip the whole thing is really comfortable to use and makes a working no harder than it should be. Accessories and processing are in my opinion good to very good. Except for the above criticisms wirlich recommended.
