Peak Design Pro Tripod review: a leg up over the original

The caller video-focused tripod is each astir the caller and improved shot head.

Whenever Peak Design releases a caller product, whether it's a backpack, a camera strap, oregon adjacent a wallet, I'm ever looking guardant to seeing what benignant of genius engineering tweaks the San Francisco-based institution came up with. And portion determination are immoderate clever tricks here, the recently released enactment of video tripods is much astir applying lessons the squad learned from its first tripod merchandise implicit six years ago. The legs are sturdier, there's an improved halfway column, a redesigned shot head, and galore different improvements worthy going through.

First, the basics: determination are 3 variants to take from: the Pro Lite, Pro, and Pro Tall, each of which stock the aforesaid halfway features but disagree successful max tallness and weight. The full lineup of tripods is disposable connected Kickstarter, but they won't beryllium inexpensive - the Pro Lite, Pro, and Pro Tall outgo $799, $899, and $999, respectively. Discounts for backing them connected Kickstarter scope from 23 percent disconnected the Pro Lite to 27 percent disconnected the Pro and Pro Tall.

I had a accidental to trial each of them implicit a fewer weeks.

The Pro Lite is the lightest exemplary and weighs 3.7 lbs. You'll announcement the added heft compared to the 2.81 pounds of the c fibre Travel Tripod - Peak …

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