Delivered my second defective tripod Actually a lot of nerve to send such a thing even to the supposedly reasonable price. Do me the tripod at the flash Offered bought so something cheaper than normal, no particularly high expectations for this product have had because of the price. Nevertheless, I ask at least that one can carry out the points in the description explicitly listed with the stand namely "Smooth panning and tilting" (really the only reason to buy a video tripod) and that the tripod is supplied new with no signs of wear. For my first delivery: as explained already in many other reviews, the undercarriage with the really stable telescopic legs as quite good as well as to evaluate the terminals are made of aluminum. Unfortunately, the aluminum is also equipped in many places with an extremely sensitive dark coating which has already been badly scratched by either the transport or maybe I even get two times a customer returns ?? Scratches are not particularly nice to look at, especially in new product and for me actually has a reason to send something back but the really bad thing I discovered only at second glance times, namely two to one half of the vertical pivot mechanism continuous hairline cracks in the aluminum (Photo ) who might have done when loaded by a camera with telephoto lens to fracture the whole tripod head! Still, I wanted before I again send the tripod back and send me replacement let the whole thing at least once completely build and behold, still a lot more flaws came to light: In other reviews will already strongly emphasized that the tripod head is just downright hard to turn, well with the product I sent sent can be the video head NOT EVEN horizontally rotate because apparently the bottom bracket by a manufacturing defect in the metal "seized" has also left not fix the swing arms because a thread was broken (photo) So returned entire package Mhhh was perhaps a "Monday device" I believed, but no far from it.
After faster processing of returning by Amazon (the only good thing about this order :) I get my tripod replacement after a few days, this time but, strangely, even more scratched than the first (photos to follow) Something I call good customer oriented quality control. But no matter what I thought and again completely built the stand for testing the function, and even with the spare tripod can be a horizontal pivot only to keep up with his left hand on the aluminum legs and accomplish a lot of strength. Unless keep the whole thing falls before to before the inner bearing only moved one millimeter, allegedly can be cleaned disassemble the problem by completely new and oils improve as has been reported here in a helpful review of the camp. This I do not, however, as the buyer's duty but the manufacturer Providing save Lieber time and effort and buy another product, or who do not mind the effort to buy and so long to return to a functional copy Amazon: Conclusion
