buy once buy good.. manfrotto on budget

[P-Chan]

I shall be buying this egs plus heads in the next coming week. I did me some research on this combo


Manfrotto 496RC2 Ball Head with Friction Control


Manfrotto 190XPROB Alu


To be used in varouis situations like landscape, portraits, waiting for birds to pass by and so on.

Im 5'7 thus not a really tall chap. Will the camera reach my eyes with this combo? Not really looking forward to bend down.


Are overall ball heads better then 3way? I like ball head for their smaller size (more compact)

Also on Manfrotto site it said something like that the head will take more weight then the legs and that is no good. Didnt really understand what it meant.

Plus could I eventually upgrade the pad to a better bigger one for the head?


Thanks for any help


P.S Manfrotto is my chioce not interested somehow in other brands

 

[Mad Badger]

Go on take a chance................

Go Benro!

super carbon quality, excellent ballhead, loads of options on this guy's shop & 100% feedback

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-BENRO-C-2...tDomain_0?hash=item3caa36aedf#ht_13726wt_1161

This is a pretty heavy duty version, if you aren't using a long lens the less expensive versions will do the trick very well

MB

 

[AndyElliott]

The two sites I have used for tripods are Ffordes (https://secure.ffordes.com/index.htm) and Mifsuds (http://www.mifsuds.com/usedpriceindex.htm) - both are good for a range of used tripods. I have the 441 - which sits between the 190 and 055 carbon fibre models, I'm very happy with it.

Andy

 

[neil_g]

ive just ordered Manfrotto 190XPROB Tripod W/ 322RC2 and bag from Korea via ebay.. hope it arrives lol

 

[saxk]

should have got a Redsnapper Neil

i have one and it looks and feels like a tripod 4x its price

 

[neil_g]

should have got a Redsnapper Neil

i have one and it looks and feels like a tripod 4x its price

yeah i did have a look and i was impressed with the RS monopod i bought dad, but for some reason the manfrotto appealed more?

 

[saxk]

its a better make for sure, but for 50 gibbs its pretty mean.

i want a tripod out here but even a small crappy 10quid argos style thing is like 30. even in Singapore, its a joke. now i have a 3 quid (sorry no pound key) tiny fake nikon thing, works pretty well mind.

 

[neil_g]

thats surprising mate concidering half this stuff is made out there, youd think itd be cheaper due to the amount they have lol

 

[saxk]

yer it makes no sense to me at all. anyway ill let the thread continue.

Derail averted

 

[P-Chan]

tnx guys sticking to manfrotto

 

[HoppyUK]

tnx guys sticking to manfrotto

Manfrotto is good, even if there is better value out there (Benro, Red Snapper).

But to answer your question about height, the 190 series is quite small and even at 5ft 7in you will need quite a lot of extension on the centre column. This is death to stability.

055 series is the proper job

 

[P-Chan]

liked the 55 but went modern to bigger. Plus I will be doing alot of walking thus bending down I decided will be my future as I ordered the 190 yesterday. Today later on will be ordering the head 496RC2. Would love m one of those super light nice looking ball heads but unfortunetly at the mo beyond my justifying one of them.