KINGJOY Tripod for Cameras, 76 Inch Tall Compact Camera Tripods & Monopods for DSLR Binoculars Laser Level Projector, Aluminum Heavy Duty Tripod Stand Compatible with Camera Canon Nikon

This is probably the nicest non name brand tripod I’ve ever used. That being said, I should note that I’m not a professional photographer and have only really used about two or three tripods prior to this one, but this one is better than all of those by a mile.The tripod comes in a nice bag with a carrying handle and a half-length sipper to hold the tripod and the various extra parts that come with it. You get the tripod, a cell phone holder attachment, a blue tooth remote control (that only works with cell phones), an instruction manual, a hex wrench to tighten the tension in the foldable legs, and the option of three rubber feet and three aluminum “spike” feet.The tripod body is hollow aluminum which is great for reduced weight. Each of the three legs is telescoping in three sections allowing for an insane amount of height adjustment. The main single tube body of the unit is also telescoping but you don’t get too much height in the main body, but you do get some. A word on this main tube body: be careful with it! When this tripod arrived I read through the short instructions and then went about messing about with it. I unscrewed the tension knob to the main tube and pulled up to see how much extra height the main body could extend. Without any force at all the inner tube came flying out of the larger main tube and two or three plastic parts came flying out and one of them broke in half. I tried my best to put it all back together but had no luck. Luckily I was able to return the damaged unit to Amazon for a replacement tripod that came very quickly. Again, just be gentle with the main tube body of the tripod and hopefully this won’t happen to you.Once you get your telescoping legs to the perfect height and adjust the main body for height if needed you’re left to attach your camera or phone to start taking pictures. At the top of the main tubular body is an all metal mount that starts with a large ball joint that moves freely to almost any angle you could need and then locks solidly in position using the large metal knob on the side. The whole ball joint itself can rotate 360º in place and then it too locks down securely using the smaller metal knob on the side. That rotating head also has degree markings and an arrow marker so you can set a numerical position if need be. On top of the ball joint rests an all metal mounting plate. The metal mounting plate is actually two pieces secured by another metal knob that pinches the inner plate when tightened and allows the inner plate to be completely removed when loosened. Once the inner plate is removed you can attach it to your DSLR camera mount or the cell phone mount included with the kit. Once mounted slide the inner plate in the outer mount and tighten the screw down to secure the whole thing. The mount also has a tiny bubble level on the edge which is great if your whole tripod is off level.Once fully extended this tripod is extremely tall. I tried to convey the height as best I could by using the wide angle lens on my iPhone and show that the tripod towers over my refrigerator! Another cool feature that is touted in the sellers description and photos is the ability to remove the entire central tube separate than the leg body and invert the central tube. As the sellers photos show, this allows you to mount your camera very low to the ground while inverted and take some unique perspective photos. I haven’t used this feature to take any photos, but I was able to CAREFULLY (see my prior note of warning) remove the center tube to invert it, lock it down, then undo the procedure and put it back to “normal” with no issues.While I’ll almost certainly be using this tripod to take some great landscape photos, night photos, and family portraits, I mainly ordered this tripod to use it as a laser level tripod due to its ability to extend to very high heights. I have a professional laser level that I use frequently when building shelves, hanging pictures, or any number of other uses. I have a very cheap tripod I’ve been using for a while now but it only extends to about 4-5 feet in height and it always lets me down when I need much more height. I’m happy to say this tripod is absolutely perfect for what I needed: height! This allows me to get my laser lines almost to the ceiling in most of my rooms, especially in the basement where I’m building shelves for a pantry. The strength of the aluminum lends confidence when you have your laser level, cell phone, or DSLR attached and that’s always a good thing.I am so pleasantly surprised with this tripod for all my various needs. I appreciate all the metal used in the construction for the relatively low price point. The tripod does utilize plastic bits in some areas but there is definitely more metal used in construction than would be expected. The main feature for me is the ability to extend to very high heights. I can’t imagine a better tripod for your needs especially at this price point. I am knocking off star due to the fact that my first one broke right out of the bag. Even though I was able to get a replacement, this shouldn’t happen. Even still, I can very much recommended this to you. I hope this review was helpful to you in some way. Cheers!

This tripod is really sturdy more than I thought. But before I have it on my hands I believed I could used on a trip out of town. But it is too heavy to carry it out a whole day with the rest of my stuff on my back.However it will be okay on short rrips when my car is near. Anyway it is a great purchase at very good price.

Me encantó su versatilidad, calidad, robustez, fácil de llevar, el precio muy bueno.

This tripod is better then I expected. Its very sturdy and easy to adjust. Would highly recommend this if your on a budget.

Nice price, great value

...happened back in August. The love of my video and photography life, died from a broken neck. It was more like her collar bone, but it may as well have been her neck. It rendered her useless after 23 solid years - a testament to the quality of products Sony made back in 1999, when young budding film makers were discovering how to shoot and compress analog to digital, and the Sony HandyCam craze was abound. My Sony cam was a High8 ConsumerPro model - just under the 3cd line - and her first tripod was the Sony VCT-670RM.Someone is still selling one on eBay for about 45 bucks.That tripod captured thousands upon thousands of pictures, and hundreds of gigs of video; traveled to foreign lands, and passed many security check points! But, sadly, it was her time. Honestly, I really felt like I was losing a piece of something that had been accompanying me along this artist's life for a long time, never saying a word, diligently performing every time I needed her to, only to now be discarded. Honestly, I was a little saddened that I would be losing her.I told my daughter the story of her passing and my need to replace her. Without telling her of my emotions behind the years and years of work with this singular piece of equipment now having to go to the wayside, she said, "Aw that sounds sad!"And it was.And then I set up my new KINGJOY tripod, which is really nothing more than opening the three clips on each leg, and letting each length further deploy to its maximum length, and just sitting the tripod there.But wow.I felt kind of bad, because this KINGJOY replaced my sweet baby Sony in a heartbeat! I did not find it to be lightweight, but liked the weight of it. While the idea of carrying around a lightweight tripod might sound ideal to one with a lot of gear, you actually want more weight so you have a sturdy and solid base to work with in all conditions. In my opinion, this tripod met that need instantly. The neck is great and the ball joint moves effortlessly.What's more, my old tripod did not have a mount for phones and tablets. That old tripod even had an attached "remote" that connected to the video camera, that I had rendered inoperable ten years ago! Now I was using a combination of a phone clamp onto that old neck. And that was no fun because that old tripod was essentially rendered useless for video cameras. And I knew it had little use for me, but I continued on knowing that as long as she had three good legs we could make it.But I soon realized, wow, times have changed.This KINGJOY Tripod is awesome. I love it and glad it was the replacement instead of some other bad choice. This was a solid choice and I am glad I made it. I would strongly recommend this KINGJOY tripod to my friends and family and rate it five stars!pss. It's funny remembering what it was like at the turn of the century, circa 2000, walking around the city with a camera and that old tripod, and how people would do almost anything back then to get on tv - because if you had the equipment (and people thought a camera and tripod was THE equipment) you MUST be from the tv!! lol... the things people have said to me on camera.....