The build quality is absolutely good because there's nothing to complain about. Everything can look very sophisticated and it rattles nothing. the joints running tired and click a class the Grid on. The supplied ball head is amazingly strong in attracting him well and bagged almost from. Friction can be set via screw unfortunately only for the rotation of the head, not the ball. However, when the ball is not quite tighten the camera can also move well. Unfortunately the tripod is fully extended in halfway decent working height, only the tripod then quickly shaky with a big DSLR and 70-200mm lens front of it. But what is not the fault of the stand but my because I have the maximum working height in the product description is not properly taken into account;) So an absolutely 5-star product in view of the price, especially with this super ball head!