But now in order.
The Good:
The Vanguard MG-3 is a stable built, almost entirely composed and mechanically smoothest tripod and videos for a dream. Surely it can not keep up on the fineness with which a professional tripod, but in between there are several hundred euros.
The processing of the rods and the head is remarkably good for this price. The pans can go butt soft in all directions and can incur still images.
If it is tightened, all sitting on the tripod bombproof, but the tripod itself on the floor not so good. The feet are ridiculously small and easy access not. One can either the mandrel "exit" by revving the rubber ring or the rubber feet all turns down for hard floors.
As I said it's very good for long exposures with a DSLR in the state and Video pans with a videocam and deserves 5 stars.
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The Bad:
Most likely to infer a series error is the lubrication of the otherwise super good joints. The mass, which is extremely sticky as resin, is at room temperature and / or use of 2 weeks gone from the joints, although slowly, but once you touched this ground it sticks like crazy. Los is they only when one takes a lot of soap. This is an absurdity, if you have expensive equipment then also have to touch it to pack up when hands glue. Once you touch other things with it, it sticks there and that makes it so bad. Come on, this lens has to be cleaned professionally, since this requires extreme caution. The buttons of the devices will be difficult.
This experience I had to do three times and is now a thing! So good is the rest, so it is useless if the "Harz" runs out. So you messed up everything.
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Conclusion: I thought for the price the panacea to have found, as it has met all expectations! Disappointed, I was by this defect / error.
Therefore difficult to add your vote ...
Can I count in the scoring with a defect?
NO !!!
And if it occurs 2 times consecutively?
NO !!!
And if it consecutively occurs 3 times?
YES !!!
From the second time is actually already legally concluded with improvements, but here my tolerance was maxed out at a product with defect with 3 times in a 2 week cycles.
I have some devices need to return 2 times and they still very well evaluated, because they work !!!
This unfortunately does not ...
I still give even 2 stars, because it did his duty well, as long as I had it.
(For this I have but taped with foil the greasy resin to the joint and thus outward isolated)
