hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my review of the Manfrotto pixie
mini tripod now for my setup when I'm doing tabletop reviews of tech items I
don't really need something like this it's a smaller form factor more portable
my setup I'll roll in some b-roll here kind of you know once you get it set up
you really don't move it around a lot so this is more for the creator on the go
so to speak and for me I wanted to make sure that it would fit nicely in my
little carrying bag that I got with my Canon SL 2 so as you saw there it fit
very nicely in that free bag that I got so what you're looking at is a tripod
that is 7.3 inches long so nice easy portability there it is eight point two
ounces in weight so again very light now a lot of the other reviews that I saw of
the Manfrotto pixie mini here just talked about yeah it's easy to hold it's
really cool well we're gonna take a little more in-depth look at that and
what I'm talking about is up here you have the ball joint which will allow you
to rotate the position of the camera that you have on top of here the
threaded screw does not actually twist as you see with many normal tripods this
one the entire tripod itself will rotate to actually get this to lock down now
the top of it here is slightly rubberized so it's I want to say it's a
rubberized plastic it definitely is textured now as you see the ball joint
all you have to do is depress the button here and you can kind of rotate that
however you like as long as you have the ball joint depressed now it does offer
you a good stable hold if you're going to use it as just a kind of extender for
your camera which I rather like and have done several times now in here I will
again roll in some b-roll of you have your selfi vlogging stance so you can
kind of move the ball joint so that you can hold it you can also use it I have
found and have tried for more of those sliding you know product review shots to
kind of fancy up your review obviously I don't really do those all that often
because well not a super fan of a lot of b-roll and I
want to look at the product not you know fancy lighting but moving down past the
ball joint in depressor here you have your matte finish on the leg so that
does offer you a little bit of grip now it's not super slick so if you grab it
your hand gets a little sweaty you're not going to drop this I do feel that
perhaps over time I have not run into this issue as of yet but may want to
throw some grip tape on there to make it a little easier to grab on to now the
legs do pop out and when they are in this form factor you have a height of 5
inches from the lowest point here to the connector up there now coming down to
the bottom of the feet there are little rubber grips there which do help it stay
in place so once it is fully deployed you have a little bit of leeway so as
you saw I'm sitting here pushing it now
most people when they are demonstrating this show hey this is my little vlogging
camera well Manfrotto says you can use a
compact digital SLR so in my case I have the canon SL 2 which is what i've been
testing this particular mini tripod out with and it's primarily why i wanted to
get a mini tripod i'm trying to do some videos when i go out and vlogging i
tried something on my other channel a video over there and one of the major
things that i found is when holding that camera and walking even though the lens
that came with it has a optical image stabilization the image was not as
stable as I wanted and I think that's probably because of the way I have to
hold the digital SLR to take video with it so I wanted to get this to see if
that would help with it and you know help with different angles too so
Manfrotto says that you are looking at a mock maximum body weight for a digital
SLR of 1.4 pounds and a total payload including a kit lens so not a telephoto
lens of 2.2 pounds so for most compact digital SLRs you will be okay
with that and in fact here is my canon SL 2 and we're just going to attach that
thusly and then the beauty of it is depending on where you want this button
you can just depress it and work the ball joint however you need it to be so
here you go canon SL 2 with the kit lens and a
microphone that I'm testing out holding it sideways and it's not moving now I'm
gonna give it a little shaky shaky so you can see it does hold now my concern
is since this is not a dialed in mounting plate here you do and I would
suggest checking you know before you go and do something crazy just make sure
that's nice and snug up there before you go out and do something crazy and here
we go we'll put this down so you can see I'll be a little easier if the giant mic
was not there but we'll just push that back that's like so Manfrotto pixie mini
tripod is definitely something that you want to have kind of if you're an out in
the wild type of videographer now depending on where you pick this up you
can pick it up for between eighteen and twenty seven dollars so that's the other
thing I've seen some people who have these and they like they're really rough
with them and they break a leg off or something like that well at that price
point if I break this I'm not going to be crying so you know maybe eighteen
twenty seven dollars as a little higher in your price budget as you start you
know your journey to taking video or better photography but you know at that
price it's it's not terrible so for what I've been looking for and this is
exactly the form factor I was looking for for a mini tripod to bring with me
this this fits the bill really well so I have been Wanderer001 if you
have any questions or comments please leave them in the area below and as
always thanks for watching