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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 6012" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>What tripod you use will depend on how and what you use it for. No tripod will work for both indoor and outdoor shooting. Outdoor, hiking, backpacking, or just walking through woods to get to a waterfall or that sunrise from the top of a ridge you will want something light weight and small enough to carry around for a couple of hours. For indoor portrait or macro shooting you want something sturdy and heavy enough to be stable. Usually most photographers try to buy one to do both jobs and wind up not very happy with what they bought. Decide what style of photography you do most and buy for that style. Fen is giving good advice cheap tripods are worthless and you are wasting your money on them. Manfrotto makes a very good line of carbon fibre tripods and worth every cent you spend on them. My wife and I annually spend 4 to 6 weeks on trips across country and a tripod that is light weight and compact is essential especially for flying. I purchased the Tiltall Traveler for $130. It is less than 17" folded up and less than 3 lb. and one of the legs comes off to be used as a monopod. It fit the bill for what I needed it for but I was a little leery about the quality. It was not one of the more "expensive" models. When I got it I was very surprised at the quality, very good, and it has worked great for what I wanted it for. I have another tripod for indoor work but it weighs almost 9 lb. Not something you want to carry around outdoors.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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