cullmann tilt pan head in All Reviews

…The Vanguard MG-3 tripod is well made and is one of the rare budget tripods with a reasonable "fluid" like pan and tilt head. It is not quite in the league of the Velbon Sherpa 538 but is is $100… 2 more reviews »

…i use a lot of night vision, and long range lens's, these get heavy on the tilt pan head of the tripod, and it starts to move, or bend over time. the pastic head also has that plasticy spring to it… 71 more reviews »

…I spent A LOT of time trying to find a reasonably priced tripod that had true fluid-head smooth panning and tilting. I have my own videography business, and had spent $100 on a tripod that was jerky… 29 more reviews »

…This tripod is absolutely rock solid. The all-metal construction allows much more minute adjustment to tilt and pan head esp. when using long zoom. The only thing I would add is a level… 17 more reviews »

… and tilt head broke off. Other than that this is a good starter tripod.…

… and tilt head broke off. Other than that this is a good starter tripod.… 41 more reviews »

… cheaper Cullmann flash, the 20 AF-C, that does allow for tilt but unlike the 220EX it does not support high speed sync. The support of high speed sync is crucial for use of the flash for daylight fill… 70 more reviews »

… already can buy a KODAK tripod with panning head, which has the middle part which can be extracted and used as a monopod, and have best of two worlds.

Again - excellent quality product… 83 more reviews »

… was able to find another monopod with quick release legs which were much easier to set up in the field, although it did not have the tilt/rotate head as the Cullmann unit, for much less. Adding the superglue… 1 more review »

… and pan controls for the head (which would have made it easier for panning or shooting panoramas, for example). Also, as another reviewer pointed out, clasp-type locks on the legs would have made the legs… 17 more reviews »

…Excellent fluid motion on pans! If you keep the tilt screw pretty tight, you receive outstandingly smooth tilts. Construction seems very sturdy. Two minor shortcomings: --The bubble level…

… on it is useless as is for pan and tilt! I took the original head off and engineered a good head off an old tripod on to this tripod. I now had a useable tripod for about a month. Then One leg broke in half. Am… 4 more reviews »

… with 20lbs and works fine while a little too heavy for perfectly smooth, use 12lbs max for butter smooth pan and tilts. Canon HV10 and HV20 barely tax the system and work wonderful. The tripod…

… the unit allows for both gross or fine control of up-down altitude/tilt, it only allows fine control in East-West panning meaning you'll need to mount the adapter on a pan-tilt tripod head in order to aim… 1 more review »

…-around but would have been easier to just include that feature in the head. I get the impression this is more of a "Video" useage tripod because of the head. If the manufacturer means the "2 way fluid head" pans… 2 more reviews »