Tripod to buy under £50

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Hi,
I have Canon 600d with 18-200mm lens. I am planning to buy some affordable tripod for around 50 pounds. Could anyone please recommend me some.
 
Cheap tripods tend to have bendy legs and they aren't as steady as you want. I have a £15 Hama one which is ok but it is infuriating in many ways. The quick release head is great and it is a proper height one ie 6 feet or so rather than the midget ones. The head isn't steady enough and it can be a pain for precise positioning. There's more give and droop than you'd want. I had a £50 slik one and that was worse than the hama. It was free with a magazine subcription.

I'd probably buy a really cheap one and then save up for a decent one. £50 ones probably won't be that much better than the really cheap ones unless you can get lucky with an end of line or a decent second hand one.
 
Personally, if I had a £50 budget I would be looking at second hand. You will get a far better model that way than buyiung something new for that price.

Al
 
srichards said:
. I have a £15 Hama one which is ok but it is infuriating in many ways. The quick release head is great and it is a proper height one ie 6 feet or so rather than the midget ones. The head isn't steady enough and it can be a pain for precise positioning. There's more give and droop than you'd want.
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You must have the same as me lol mines a hama star 42 it is a bit flimsy but until I get super serious ill keep using it till I can afford something from manfrotto or the likes of
 
I've got a camlink tripod which I got from Argos for about £40. It does the job well enough, I've not had any stability issues with it and it does have one of those hooks to hang something from it to give it some extra weight.

Its also been at the top of a large hill in the peaks with no surrounding cover in order to do a time lapse sequence. The camera bounced around a bit due to heavy winds catching the lens and hood but I think that would happen with any tripod.
 
faddius said:
I've got a camlink tripod which I got from Argos for about £40. It does the job well enough, I've not had any stability issues with it and it does have one of those hooks to hang something from it to give it some extra weight.

Its also been at the top of a large hill in the peaks with no surrounding cover in order to do a time lapse sequence. The camera bounced around a bit due to heavy winds catching the lens and hood but I think that would happen with any tripod.
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Cheap tripods are great, they give one that nice self-satisfied feeling of having saved a few quid...

right up to the point they fall over and £1000 worth of camera and lens hit the tera firma ;)
 
Try your best to save up a little more money and get a half decent one - you will save money in the long run.

Think also what you may what to to with the tripod - e.g., how low do you wish the tripod to go (not just how high)? Do you need the center column to pop out horizontally to enable you to get incredibally close to the ground (for macro)?

I went for the Manfrotto 190XPROB (because it had the above feature) + 486RC2 ball head - which is around £150 in total. Does great for macro work and portrait/HDR work. It isn't any way near as solid as the more expensive options, but it does the job with ease.
 
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