Induro tripods

[Chivs33]

Anyone have experience with these?

I was originally sold on a Feisol set of legs but I'm being put off by the inverted leg design and also the weight or lack of. I'm being very fussy on this purchase of a tripod as 1. I have some I can use at the moment so no real pressure to rush out and buy some, and 2. I haven't been all that happy with my last ones & want to take my time and find a set I'm really happy with or as close to!

The Feisol legs although short, don't close up very tight due the width of the spider and also the inverted legs. I can't believe I'm saying this also but there too light. The traveller 3441t that I was looking at is only 1.1kg....good for carrying but not so good for stability - there has to be a balance! And also I plan using it with a D810 + sigma 150-600 sport...I would worry the feisol is not up to it.

It's proving more difficult than I thought without signifantly increasing my budget, until I recently began looking at the Induro legs. Anyone used and had experience with them in particular the stealth clt204.

 

[Canon Bob]

I don't have experience of the tripod you mention but the Induro kit that I use (two heads and a low tripod) is excellently engineered.

Bob

 

[chris malcolm]

If you're worried about the tripod not being heavy enough that's easily fixed -- just hang your gearbag or other weight from the book under the centre column provided for just that purpose. In very windy conditions where a bag would swing you can attach the same hook with luggage elastics to some tent pegs or a dog tether ground screw.

 

[tijuana taxi]

My series 3 Gitzo only weighs 1.7kg, solid as a rock, more about design than the weight of the tripod itself.

Guessing the Feisol you mention is of the type without a centre column, if so the larger hub is to provide better stability.
None of this type fold that small, even worse if you invert the legs, but the folded length is very handy for travelling

 

[Chivs33]

I'd love a Gitzo but just can't bring myself to spend the ££££!. I know there prob built well but really so well they justify 2.5-3x the price of others!

I've narrowed my search down to -

Feisol 3441T - http://www.globaltechcommerce.co.uk/feisoluk/23-ct-3441t-traveller.html

And

Induro CT214 - http://www.dalephotographic.co.uk/m...ine/_CT214/-/Induro CT214 Carbon Fiber Tripod

Please share your thoughts? My concern with either of these is will they be able to support a D810 with a 500/600 tele occasionally?

 

[Chivs33]

Forgot to mention will be paired with a Manfrotto Xpro ball head rated to 12kg.

 

[chris malcolm]

For a DSLR with a long heavy lens on it what's more important than the absolute weight the tripod and head are rated to carry is whether the camera & lens is supported at close to its centre of gravity. If not, the kind of twisting load put on the head will be perfectly safe as far as support is concerned, but distinctly wobbly as far as stability is concerned -- a tendency to nod backwards and forwards after you've pressed the shutter, or a gust of wind hits it. Long heavy lenses have their own mounting feet, but won't necessarily be in the best position to balance your particular camera. For that you need at least a sliding plate. If the lens is a zoom which telescopes in and out you'll need more adjustment, and preferably a gimbal head which is more tolerant of positioning errors.

Note by the way that any tripod with telescoping legs becomes a lot stiffer and stronger if the last thinnest leg section is left unextended. So you can get away with a light travel tripod which is under-rated for your heaviest lens and camera if you don't mind keeping it a bit lower when using the heaviest stuff. It won't break if you use it extended with a nominally too heavy load, it'll just be annoyingly wobbly. You can still take perfectly sharp long exposures with a weak wobbly tripod and head combination if there's no wind and you operate the shutter with a radio remote after waiting for it to stop wobbling. I've done that in museums and churches with a heavy camera & lens on the weakest wobbliest tripod in the world -- a monopod with three tiny little feet which took half a minute to stop swaying.