Backpacking tripod - recommendations sought - sub £100 and consider 2nd hand.

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So, there's plenty of threads about travel tripods and thats given me some lighter tripods to consider but it's not necessarily travel I need it for, I really want something lighter than my Manfrotto 190xprob which comes in about 2.5kg with the pistol head.

To that end Ive just bought here and used a second hand manfrotto befree and Im not getting on with it at all, its the fiddly leg angle settings and the ball head plates not a quick release one, it's a real fiddle.

SO, ive found the following which fit my needs ie
budget about £100
size about 30cm folded
weight about 1kg ish
system is olympus micro four thirds ie em1 with 12-40 lens

This https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Travel-C...737346?hash=item33b5d17d82:g:LmkAAOSwIgNXpq3c looks like a copy of one of the 3legged thing tripods and is sub £40! but I wonder if it would be any good, ie seems too cheap?

Then theres the Mefoto roadtrip at http://www.mefoto.com/uk/products/roadtrip.aspx which looks like it would do the job but is a bit on the heavier side at 1.6kg

Then the Sirui T-005x which again looks like it would fit the bill. https://www.amazon.co.uk/SIRUI-T-00...tg-21&linkId=9b6f4eb28c37109bed7239e9a7026afb

So, any thoughts or suggestions appreciated?
 
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I've got one similar to the first one you linked, I've had it for about 3 years, it's been everywhere, including down caves, in mud, under water and it is still going strong. It is the lightest thing and is fine with my EM5 ii MFT set up, I have had the 6D on it and is OK if you only extend the first couple of led sections. On mine the supplied ball head comes off if you want to put a better ball head on it, not that there is anything wrong with the one that comes with it, and again it is the about lightest ball head with QR plate that I have seen.
 
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I've got one similar to the first one you linked, I've had it for about 3 years, it's been everywhere, including down caves, in mud, under water and it is still going strong. It is the lightest thing and is fine with my EM5 ii MFT set up, I have had the 6D on it and is OK if you only extend the first couple of led sections. On mine the supplied ball head comes off if you want to put a better ball head on it, not that there is anything wrong with the one that comes with it, and again it is the about lightest ball head with QR plate that I have seen.
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gotta be worth a punt at that price then surely
 
I have this, Redged TSC-525 but they are not made anymore.

Folded to 30cm, it is 1.2kg including the head, max height is 1.1metre (the only down side). But it can take a Canon 5D with any of my L lenses (i don't have any 70-200 to test).

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The alternative I can see may be something like this which you have found already.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SIRUI-T-005X-Ultralight-Travel-Tripod/dp/B01FG7X6X4
 
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I have the carbon fibre version of the Sirui (the T-025X) and am v happy with it, although I tend to use it without the centre column because I just don’t like my camera sitting that far above the tripod’s centre of gravity. As a result the camera is waist high at most - not a problem for most landscape photos anyway, certainly not with the rear screen on my Oly EM5.2. Worth thinking about though to see if you are happy with that sort of centre column

Ian
 
As a follow up I got impatient and ordered the ebay one thats supposed to be 1.13kg at £32, on unpacking it though and weighing it it's closer to 1.4kg, so I'm pretty sure Im going to return it and it doesn't really feel all that stable to be honest.
I can't say im madly surprised, I always thought there was a good chance it would be too good to be true.
 
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