added Aegis <| sep |> I ' m going to be the odd man out and say get it . 1 you ' re not going to find a cheaper alternative and seems to be a good deal . 2 I own a $ 700 Manfrotto setup and choose my Sunpak UltraPro $ 119 over it almost every time . I use my Sunpak almost EVERY DAY and have put it through some serious abuse . Every once in a while I need to tighten screws , locks , etc . but nothing that shouldn ' t be expected with that much use . I can ' t comment on this specific tripod but I wouldn ' t hesitate to at least try it out . EDIT This is going to depend on the weight of your camera and how it holds up on the tripod and also , the reason that I use a LW tripod is because I move around a lot with it . Just wanted to throw that out there for context .