Degree of freedom and secure support for the equipment

At a Glance:
+ Very good quality material and workmanship
+ Nearly completely of metal (die cast), lock nut made of plastic with threaded insert
+ Good function and fit of the items (hand levers, locking pin, tripod plate, locking nut)
+ Damped tilt possible with easily dissolved locking nut
+ Clamping lever with dual function (see Figure 1)
+ Lockable clamping lever (see Figure 2)
+ Tripod plate of metal with rubber pad
+ No tools or dime for mounting the base plate on camera necessary because the screw is fitted with herausklappbarem bracket.
o tripod plate only fits in one position on the tripod head (see Figure 3)
+ Tripod plate bottom with arrow marking towards the lens, so that all control elements of the tripod head is always the same orientation.
+ Very stable and secure hold of the equipment on the tripod head
+ Very reasonable price

Conclusion: High-functional and very well priced even better.

1. Operate the clamping lever to about 45 ° shall release tripod plate, the lever springs back again. Advantage of the lever is now off and hardly accidental snagging is reduced.
Operating the lever to about 90 ° effects a latching of the lever, the lever is now clearly to the outside. When you insert the tripod plate (with camera) engages the lever automatically and clamps the tripod plate safely in tripod head. Very convenient as possible Handed.

2. The clamping lever is selectively lockable against accidental opening. For this must be brought to the a clear resistance in the appropriate position below lying locking pin.

3. The tripod plate can be caused by lodging its shape only in a single position on the tripod head and lock. So When mounting the tripod plate in the camera is used to define whether you down or up the option for Portrait or the option for tilt forward. You can switch between the two options is only possible if the tripod plate is detached from the camera rotated 90 °, re-tightened and is inserted into the tripod head. This limits the flexibility of a little and would not be a balanced tripod plate.