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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 513734" data-attributes="member: 13090">My honest opinion is that the 190go! is Manfrotto's version of the MeFoto Road trip, the Evo 3, et al. and while I think these are dandy little tripods, I think of them much like I do owning a two-seater roadster: Something I take out on a clear, sunny Sunday afternoon for a fun little tool-about-town, not as something I intend to do serious work with.More to the point... The first thing I look at on a tripod is the bottom leg section. That's literally where the rubber meets the road and is a huge indicator of the degree of overall stability we can expect from a tripod. All of the aforementioned tripods have really, really thin bottom leg sections if you look at them. I'm not saying this Manfrotto isn't a dandy little tripod, I'm sure it is. But from what you're telling me, you need a &quot;Standard Tripod&quot;: a basic, no bulls--t &quot;pickup truck&quot; of a tripod. Yes, it will weigh more than these cute little two-seater convertibles you're looking at now but in my opinion, and that's all this is, that's what you need. Yes it sometimes sucks hauling a tripod around but find a good bag for it, one with a decent shoulder strap, and life with a tripod ain't so bad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 513734, member: 13090"] My honest opinion is that the 190go! is Manfrotto's version of the MeFoto Road trip, the Evo 3, et al. and while I think these are dandy little tripods, I think of them much like I do owning a two-seater roadster: Something I take out on a clear, sunny Sunday afternoon for a fun little tool-about-town, not as something I intend to do serious work with. More to the point... The first thing I look at on a tripod is the bottom leg section. That's literally where the rubber meets the road and is a huge indicator of the degree of overall stability we can expect from a tripod. All of the aforementioned tripods have really, [I]really[/I] thin bottom leg sections if you look at them. I'm not saying this Manfrotto isn't a dandy little tripod, I'm sure it is. But from what you're telling me, you need a "Standard Tripod": a basic, no bulls--t "pickup truck" of a tripod. Yes, it will weigh more than these cute little two-seater convertibles you're looking at now but in my opinion, and that's all this is, that's what you need. Yes it sometimes sucks hauling a tripod around but find a good bag for it, one with a decent shoulder strap, and life with a tripod ain't so bad. [/QUOTE]

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