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looking to buy either a benbo trekker 3 with a ben299 ballhead or a manfrotto 190xprob with a mn496rc2.To be used with 100mm,70-200 2.8is and 17-85 on a 450d.Any advice ,suggestions or if have comments.thanks in advance
 
I have the 190prob myself, fantastic tripod, versatile and easy to use, though I think with the glass your planning on putting on it I would go up a notch and get the 055prob
 
I've had them both......and i now have the carbon version of the 190. The benbo is a good tripod it was just tooo much fafing about for me, there very different beasts and you'd be best off trying each before you buy.
 
I have an 055 and a 190. They are very similar tripods other than the special horizontal pole. Without the pole the 190 feels like a light weight version of the 055 with narrower poles and a little shorter etc. Both tripods are very very good and I would happily use either of them as a main tripod. I couple them with a 222 joystick head.
 
I had a trekker for quite a few years, and when it came to replacing it decided to get another. The second one just wasn't up to the quality of the first. They had also added a new 90degree thing at the top which made it more prone to wobbling. I returned it and bought a Gitzo. Glad I did!
 
I have the Benbo and it's a great tripod, not very compact but very stable and very adaptable. Not the easiest thing to learn to use though.
 
jerry12953 said:
I had a trekker for quite a few years, and when it came to replacing it decided to get another. The second one just wasn't up to the quality of the first. They had also added a new 90degree thing at the top which made it more prone to wobbling. I returned it and bought a Gitzo. Glad I did!
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The 90deg bar was my attraction point.How bad was the wobble?
 
I had a Manfrotto 055 and I found it very frustrating as I just couldn't get it into the positions I wanted. I now have a Benbo and I wish I'd bought it years ago. I have the additional centre column bracket and I have no handling or set up problems at all and it's even more stable than my previous Manfrotto.

I use a Giottos ball head and a Manfrotto geared head with the Benbo which also has the 90 deg joint, I have no problems with it.
 
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you need to get on with benbo tripods I don't be worth trying devon camera let me play with everything in the shop before I bought mine
 
jc450d said:
The 90deg bar was my attraction point.How bad was the wobble?
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I just found it more wobbly than the earlier version without it. Nor did it seem to me that it was as well made as the first one I had.

Otherwise I found the Trekker a doddle to use. It may seem strange after a normal tripod but you would get used to it.

Apart from the comments like "Oh, I thought you had some bagpipes there"!
 
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