I have the tripod Last year for my trip around the world put on me to spare you carry a large, heavy "real" tripod. So far so good, but in practice it proved to be extremely useful for long exposure times, as a hand or a tripod to fix the camera on tree branches, rocks and railings. They can thus really hanging on a tree overhead. Although I had only a comparatively slight turn Lumix FZ-150, also joined me the problem with the slight ringing on. That could, however, be circumvented by adding the self-timer. The setting of the stand was sometimes quite friemelig, but well, it's just not a great model with full ball head and spirit level. My main gripe is the shelf life of the stand. The ball head can be, even when completely be delayed bolt, with a little effort (but without violence) still make a difference. Since the camera by sitting still shaky at no time on the ball head, I've used these unwanted "feature" for fine-tuning. And I have no doubt but once set at the wrong angle and had suddenly camera including plate in his hand: the locking mechanism was broken. For me, still not too big an issue plate was glued (was no longer abnhembar), but the tripod remained usable. Now it was anyway not very often used, but was all the time exposed to the backpack bumps and pressure ... just so I can explain to me that after about half a year when fixing attempt against a railing of one of the ball joints on the legs broke. Luckily I had the camera still on the belt, otherwise they would have fallen 2 storeys deep. Such a thing should not happen in such a short period of use actually. Nevertheless, I have three points and a (conditional) buy recommendation, since the part is really convenient and really does the job wonderfully. Moreover, since it is lighter than a Grorillapod and not particularly expensive, I'm going to probably soon set another one and hope it keeps this time a little longer ....
