GEEKOTOCompact Aluminum Camera Tripod with 360° Ball Head, 77-Inch Professional Stand with 1/4" Quick Release Plate for DSLR, Video Conferencing, Travel and Work

From start to finish I was actually pretty impressed with this tripod.Starting w the bag this tripod comes. How convenient that it comes w its own travelling bag. Only measuring 21" long. Then you take out the tripod and it is well packaged. The ball head of this tripod comes with its own little baggie for few purposes. 1 it keeps the ball head safe from scratching when getting shipped and 2 to carry the extra tool and bolt which I will go into later. The legs of the tripod come inverted which is actually the most compact way to carry this tripod. Take a look at the picture that has the little baggie underneath the tripod. You could see that the ball head is in between the legs making it very compact. Pulling down the legs is very easy to make it into a regular tripod.Once you take off the little baggie so you could see in that picture you could see the construction of the ball head. I really like that the knobs have grooves to them which will make it really easy to use when it's really cold outside or you're wearing gloves. Which has been a struggle with me with my other big named tripods.An underrated future I think is the tripod plate. You don't need to be carrying an extra set of keys or coins to make the plate tighter. It's got the extra invitations to ensure your camera is not going to sway forward or back. I walked around with a tripod n and camera on top and it felt pretty secure to me. The main shaft has two knobs you could turn pretty easily to extend it higher or lower. This is also what helps it keep it more compact that's some tripots in the market only have one.Another cool feature is a you can take off one of the tripod legs and suddenly you have a monopod! the instructions are printed on the tripod so you know which way to tighten it and which way to loosen it. In order to make your monopod work you need to take off the head of the tripod. Which is done very easily with just your bare hands. You could see a picture how they had looks on top of the monopod. nothing exciting if you ever seen a monopod but very convenient that you have two in one at this tripod.But the monopod holds another secret feature! You can take off the main shaft from the tripod, use the additional Bolt the tripod comes with and then suddenly you can make your tripod the height of a house door. Now to be honest I cannot think of a scenario that I need a monopod this high, but the fact that this feature exist is pretty cool. I would also argue that going this high stability is not your friend but I don't think any tripod would be able to have decent stability at these height without weighing a ton. But maybe you're in a crowded place and you want to put your GoPro really high above the crowds this would be perfect.Next you could see a picture of all the components of this tripod taken apart. This is a little MacGyver of tripods. You can make it a monopod, you can make it at Super monopod, you could invert the main shafts so your camera is upside down, or you can have a baby tripod too leaving everything at it's lowest.Another thing I think is underappreciated these days it's instructions and an English!! 🤯 Just that by it self lolNext you can see some pictures of how the tripod legs extend. When you have it at its last clip your legs are almost at a 90 degree angle from the floor. Then you can start slowly making them down how you will see all the last picture. If you extend the tripod to its highest and it's least angle it goes up quite a bit.Overall for the price of this tripod, its features, it's weight, it's portability, it's style and sturdiness (again for it's price) I'd say it's a must buy.I don't have real world example photos because to me those are never useful in reviews. I want to see how knobs look, how legs and build look. I hope my review could help you and have a good day.

Got a new, heavier camera, so it was time to upgrade my tripod. My husband urged me to get something "worth it" (as he had last time when I didn't), so I opted for this one. I haven't used it much, but it's in the back of the Jeep, ready for those special opportunities. Used it for photographing nesting Ospreys and could see the difference it made right away, not just from hand-held photos but from my other two tripods. This is sturdy and very easy to manipulate, which is key when you want to catch any action with a tripod. I'd highly recommend this to anyone looking for a substantial, affordable tripod.

When I open it on the Full size its not stabile at all and found that the best height is 3 section opened

This item is great. I'm using it for my son's basketball games and it does the job perfect with it being so tall. I'm 75 inches tall and with the camera attached it's about 79 inches which is perfect and tall enough to look over everyone in the bleachers and most of the folks walking by.

For my Nikon camera, I purchased the tripod in March 2022, This is Sept., the description says can have a weight of more than 30 lbs and I changed the head for a Telephoto lens 2 times and now the head wobbles, I talked to Amazon they say the return period is over. I talked to the manufacturer, and they say it is not capable of taking the weight of a telephoto (Nikon 200-500). They do not agree with what Amazon says. Is Amazon giving false info and not giving me a refund or replacing the item? Sad. I have to think 10 times now before buying anything from Amazon.At times Amazon sucks.