Fotopro 68" Travel Tripod, Compact Travel Tripod and Monopod with Quick Release Plate, Heavy Duty Professional Camera Tripod for DSLR, Load up 20kg/44lbs

nice but to heavy to carry along way

Good product all the right compromises for a travel tripod.

This is a terrible design of tripod and clearly wasn't fully thought out.First the worst ball head ever. there is no pan lock just a single screw to do everything. You will not be doing panoramic shots with this. The only plus was a grub screw on the legs to lock the head in place on the legs rather than unscrewing.The centre column is 2 pieces of aluminium screwed together the bottom end has a spring loaded non removable hook. (other designs have tended to have a 3/8ths connector here male or female) you are not going to screw anything to the bottom of this centre column the tripod head screw on this is a standard 1/4 20 screw , not reversible (the head has 3/8ths insert to adapt to this).A lot of tripods have a built in monopod feature with a detachable leg and you can often use the centre column to make it longer, Not this one!The centre column is essential 2 aluminium bars that screw into each other you wouldn't be able to use the small legs without this. Some designs have a telescoping centre column to extend the height not this one either.The greatest feature of this tripod should be the not 1 but 3 removable legs but is the biggest design failure of all. Every tripod that has had removable leg(s) that I have seen have screwed together with a 3/8ths thread. That's great since everything photographic is pretty much designed around 3/8ths and 1/4 20 threads. This allows you to use these in novel ways. maybe as a microphone boom pole perhaps. or to hold a light in place.The last thing you want is to carry dead weight and either the short legs are dead weight or the long ones are dead weight. Because if you are using one set the other set will be in the bag.Because of the stupid choice of thread size for attaching the legs, 2 adapters are provided. one to allow you to have a 1/4 20 thread to attach the ball head (once you have loosened the grub screw keeping the head in place on the centre column. the other to put a kind of walking stick head on one of the legs. Not sure what you will be doing with the third leg, self defence maybe...Even the feet show the same lack of thought , they are just rubber feet.I have a three legged thing Albert 2.0 the feet are removable 3/8ths thread with 1/4 20 inserts if I want i can fit a mini tripod replacing a foot and i have a monopod that can stand up. the top end screws into the tripod centre with a 3/8ths thread this allows me to screw it into many things. You can buy little short legs that screw into a minimal table top tripod or into the main legs.Well with the non standard threads used for attaching the legs you are not going to find new ways to use this tripod. They could rescue this disaster with 6 adapters to take the legs and tripod centres from the unknown threads used now to a standard size. Better would be a redesign to make it useful.I guess there has to be a positive and that's in tabletop mode you actually have a small tripod that can hold a full frame camera. For £44 this isn't the worst tripod in the world (that's over 2/3rds of the regular price) but I wouldn't want to pay any more and to be honest having examined it , I wouldn't have ordered it.As a tabletop tripod its quite good thou and you can fit in quite tight spaces by mixing the legs say 2 long to the floor and 1 short on the table. weight wise the short leg tripod without head is a little over 500g a full size tripod would be about 3 x heavier without a head. So while this tripod could have been so much better it actually has its uses.