This video is not about my cat,
it's about Manfrotto Befree Live tripod. Now, Manfrotto send this to me to test it,
but then they didn't ask me to say good things about this.
So, you probably already saw people say good thing about this tripod,
but is it actually that good?
To show this, I have to go outside because this is a travel tripod isn't it?
This is, you can see it is quite small, this is a travel tripod, but it is not just any other travel tripod,
it's a travel video tripod. As you can see from that small you can extend it. Well, this is
exactly like any other
travel tripod.
Now what's in a video tripod? Video tripod, you would expect that it got a fluid head.
Usually video tripods are bigger and heavier. Probably, that's
why Manfrotto suddenly realized actually these days people are using smaller and smaller cameras to
take video that's like people like me using a
A7s or even people using even smaller cameras to take video like vloggers, so that's why
this is really a product for like the YouTube age.
Now this is not exactly a "new" product,
this was released last year. Even my day job, photogearnews, they had already have a first look in
Photokina, I think it's Photokina. Also recent from photogearnews has already reviewed a photo
edition of this with a colourful
special editions of this, but for photo and not for video.
So this is not really new product,
but I have used it for a few months. I took it to Singapore as well.
Actually, that's not
usual that I'll take a tripod, but this one is quite small
and it's not exactly expensive,
Yeah.
But there's still a lot of plastic parts,
Yeah.
aaaand
probably just because of the cost it's not exactly expensive though
I'm surprised it's still made in Italy. It is? Oh yeah it is... made in Italy.
So because I usually hate bringing a tripod,
buuuuut
because this is so small
I go "Okay."
Now as I mentioned what makes a video tripod is the fluid head.
A fluid head give you very smooth
movement because you are taking video, all you moving are record into the video it has to be smooth.
It has to be, like, in a constant speed, so the friction has to be
constant, and obviously you can lock or unlock separately the tilt and the pan.
You can do really smooth panning
like this, and
really smooth tilting like this, separately
I also like this is the same plate as those bigger
Manfrotto tripods and it slide on, just like this because then you can adjust the
balance. You let it slide front and back and find the perfect balance
around that, and then you lock it down
And you got this quick leveling thing. This is not common in this kind of small tripod.
Also, you can set it to low angle.
As low as this
I forgot to mention there is a hook, here, so that you can put heavy stuff here to weight down the tripod and
also, if you remove this hook, you can take this out,
set this whole thing upside up and you get the absolute lowest angle as possible.
Like on the floor. Now this some kind of BBC Earth,
National Geographic style
wildlife! Just... it just no wildlife for now.
Alright, so answer the question: "Is this really that good?" Well,
I can say it's not the steadiest tripod ever.
It do, it do wobble a bit if you really, if you really going to shake it. It has got a lot of plastic parts.
I hoped a lot of parts would be metal, but they are not bad plastic
There's nothing flimsy at all.
But remember this is a travel tripod and this is really affordable price,
it's not exactly expensive. This is a video tripod for YouTubers, for vloggers,
for anybody who want who don't want to carry a heavy tripod.
It's got everything you need, and as I mentioned in Singapore, if this is anything heavier
I won't take it anyway no matter how good
the big heavy, video tripod it is.