Hi Carl here from ProAV TV and today we're taking a look at the
much-anticipated float at 100 tripod now the float X 75 was been around for about
a year now it was announced back in September 2017 and has since become
pretty much our best-selling mid to high end tripod system around which is quite
a feat really for a new tripod nowadays I mean it's definitely got people
excited about chai pod design again which is really quite impressive and I
think a lot of that is down to the mentality that they've taken with this
design it's all about making life as simple and as effortless as possible for
the for you as the camera operator and meaning you can move your tripod around
and work with it just so much easier than a more traditional design not to
mention it saves your back and stuff like that by moving all the controls up
here to the top to stop you having to bend down and crouch and all the rest of
it to work with your tripods when I'm out and about using the float at 75 I do
genuinely find that I'm changing the height of my tripod head much more
frequently than I am with a more traditional leg design and so it really
does make quite a difference to your filming it's going to mean that it's
much more effortless for you to get that shot which you want without you even
having to think about it really I just instinctively find myself moving around
and being more creative when I'm working with this tripod and pretty much since I
made that first video on the float at 75 I've just had comment after comment
after comment of people asking for a 100 millimeter bold version I mean 75 75
millimeter ball heads are great it's what the majority of us use myself
included most of the time but there's a lot to be said for moving up to a 100
millimeter Bowl system if you're using larger camera rigs or using big slider
systems something like that it really does make your entire setup much more
sturdy and will stop things like your head slipping when you get to the end of
the slider head that sort of thing they are far more professional and they open
up a whole world of high end heads this is the video 15
satella and Vinton and pretty much every other camera tripod manufacturer as well
make some really lovely 100 millimeter bolt heads which are far more
professional with far more high-end features on them so what is new with the
flow Tec 100 to be honest not that much I mean what we were asking for after all
was exactly the same as the flow Tec 75 but with a 100 millimeter Bowl head and
that is what they've given us it's actually own vinton have given us
exactly that they have made the legs slightly thicker in order to make room
for this 100 millimeter bowl at the top and they have increased the max payload
of course because it needs to take heavier systems they can now take up to
30 kilos whereas before with this 475 the max of
the legs was 20 kilos the big difference is this new mid spreader so it's a much
chunkier much more professional design for a mid spreader and this is pretty
much the only part of this tripod system that has completely changed it but
basically the design behind this is based around making it as simple to go
from is the minimum height to the maximum height without having to
disconnect and change much on the mid spreader so it means that people will
actually end up using it a lot more than they did with the version on the 75
which is a great thing because I love using me it's better it means that you
can pick up and move your system around like this you can shake it and the legs
aren't going to retract in on each other at all which means that when you put the
legs down you've got a straight and each one out to make sure that they're as
wide as possible for as stable a tripod as possible and also to keep your
horizons level things like that it just keeps the legs are the same distance
apart from each other regardless of what you're doing and
where you're moving so I'm really pleased to see them redesign and make a
much more sort of professional and chunky mid-level spreader for this 100
millimeter bold version so this is going to be available in October and I'm
really curious to see what you guys think of it is this what you were
waiting for with the 100 millimeters of old version version of the Flo tech and
are you going to be picking one up or will do
for a 75 millimeter pole version let me know in the comment section down below
and if you want to buy or pre-order this tripod of course the links are in the
description down below thank you very much for watching see in the next one
you