Opteka 70" Full Size Professional Photo / Video Tripod
by Opteka
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Opteka 70" Full Size Professional Photo / Video Tripod
Customer Review: Better than I expected
Summary: 5 Stars
I received the tripod ahead of the expected schedule. I've been looking at tripods in stores in and around the greater Boston area.
You can't get a better tripod for the money. In fact, you can't get anything "decent" for under $40-50 and even then I'm not sure you will get something this good.
I had it shipped to my job and a few guys in the office (which I didn't know) had purchased a tripod in the past and where really impressed when I told them I only paid $25 for it.
Conclusion: is the tripod perfect, NO. The head looks and feels like plastic. But it has nice rubber feet and rubber grip in addition to everything listed on Amazons website. This tripod is perfect for the beginner to enthusiast photographer.
Customer Review: OPTEKA 70" PROFESSIONAL PHOTO/VIDEO TRIPOD
Summary: 5 Stars
I had inspected many tripods for both my camera and video camera use and found this, OPTEKA 70" tripod,to be exceptionally strong, easy to set-up and light in weight. It performed perfectly for me and was extremely rigid with good balance, easy to change the height and angles needed with very little effort. The price was remarkebly inexpensive. I would highly recommend this tripod for both still shots and video camera use. I purchased this OPTEKA professional tripod thru AMAZON, they gave me the best price on this quality product. AMAZON is where I always check for quality products I plan on purchasing, they seem to always have the product I need at a more than reasonable price. I always recommend AMAZON to my friends.
Richard G. Bell
Customer Review: Cant' beat this for the price
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent value. Comparable 30 dollar tripods don't come close. Easy to adjust. Steady with my D80 mounted on it.
Very pleased with this purchase.
Update: jan 2011
Still pleased with the tripod - but I have one complaint which is that when using at a 90 degree (portrait) position with my D80 and a heavier zoom lense, the camera has a tendancy to spin forward (slip) on the mounting plate. The only solution is to really tighten the wingnut mounting screw really hard. There is a locating pin on the baseplate, but unfortunately my Nikon does not have a hole for it. Its not completely a tripod issue - but still may be important to someone who plans to use this heavily with portrait position and heavy lenses on a D80.
Customer Review: Not the tripod to buy...
Summary: 2 Stars
First off this thing weighs a ton, haven't really used it yet because in hurts my shoulder to carry. It is also huge, the tubes that make up the legs are very wide so not only can I not say fit my hand around it well folded up but it also does not fold up small... you'd have to carry the thin in a ski bag because it isn't going in your camera bag or backpack. Did I mention it weighs a ton? Also the bag it comes in is useless, zipper tab bent then broke off on the first pull so hope you have a golf bag to put this thing in, and a golf cart to carry it. I've owned several tripods and this weighs as much as all of them... for the price go to Sears and pick something at random and you will have something you will use more than this.Customer Review: Opteka supporting heavy binoculars
Summary: 3 Stars
Amazon recommends this product when you buy binoculars. I decided to buy to support my 20 x 80 giant binoculars for stargazing. I find the binos are way to heavy (4 lbs) to be firmly supported by the fragile structure of the Opteka 70" Photo / Video Tripod. It's extremely difficult to keep images of star clusters, nebulae not to say double stars in the center of the field of view. Altougth they are fine for terrestrial observation I think the structure is rather fragile and has excessive play. I would not recommend this if your intention is to use them with larger binos for astronomy. They migth work fine with smaller than 10x50 binos. In addition, after one month I already broke one of the tripod's plastic leg hinges.