Benro's Strongest Traveler Tripods: Travel Angel + V Ball Heads!

Benro recently released their latest series of Travel Angel tripods, the main modification is the BALL HEAD: it's upgraded from the mid-level B series heads to the professional-level elliptical V series heads, which greatly enhance the locking power and friction controlling of the tripod kits. (For more detailed introduction of V ball heads, please refer to our previous article.)

Besides ball head, other changes include:

• More flexible tube angle adjustment: from 2 levels to 3 levels, which provides better low-angle shooting performance.
• More advanced locking mechanism of tube locks.
• Bigger leg pads, which enlarge the touching area of tripod legs, hence higher tripod stability.

For other main features in the ancestor version, such as monopod conversion, walking stick conversion and invertable center column, the new tripods are all inherited.

The tripods are available in both Carbon Fiber (prefix "C") and Aluminium (prefix "A"):

• Carbon Fiber: C1682TV1, C1692TV0, C2682TV2, C2692TV1, C2692TV2
• Aluminium: A1682TV1, A1692TV0, A2682TV2, A2692TV1, A2692TV2

The first 6 digits specify the tripod body, and the last 2 digits stand for ball head. e.g C2682TV2, means C2682T carbon fiber tripod body, with V2 ball head.

Perfect Match - Benro C3780T Tripod & G3 Ball Head

The Benro Combination Series Tripod and G Series Ball Head are the toppest grade photo gears among the brand, with the highest stabilities and loading capacities. In size-wise, they are also perfect fit, it seems that they are mutually born for each other. They are especially suitable for heavy equipments, such as tele-lenses, medium and large format cameras.

In this article, we will spend larger proportion to introduce the Combination Series Tripod (we use C3780T for the demonstration), and how it works together with the G3 ball head.

Demonstration - Benro Versatile Tripod C2970T & V2 Ball Head

In this article, we will share a simple review for the Versatile series Tripod of Benro, and we will use the new Benro V2 ball head on the tripod, to demonstrate the great flexible feature of the tripod.

The Versatile series Tripod is the most flexible tripod from Benro, it allows photographers to adjust their shooting angles easily, even the angles are very strange which cannot be acheived by normal tripods. It's one of the most useful tripods from Benro. That's why it's called Versatile series.

New Product - Benro Video Tripod with Leveling Column

In May 2012, Benro released a new video tripod A1573FS2 for small DV.

The designing of the video tripod is totally new: on top of the basic front-rear tilting and 360˚ panning abilities, the tripod has a LEVELING CENTER COLUMN which allows user to level the tripod head effortlessly, even in uneven terrains, like the following photo (you could see that the tripod and center column are heavily inclined, but the video head and the DV are still in level position):

Benro 2nd Generation Traveler Tripods

The Benro 2nd generation tripod is the first tripod series with the ability of MONOPOD CONVERSION. It's released in late 2010, and is one of the best selling models of Benro tripods in the past two years, thanks its portable size and its monopod conversion ability.

Tripod & Monopod 2 in 1

Reverse Folding design makes it more portable

Benro PC1 & PC0 Panorama Clamps and Applications

In 2010, Benro started to produce the product line of panorama equipments, such as panning clamps, nodal slides and right-angled nodal plates. Up to now, the product line becomes more and more mature.

In this article, we will focus on the panorama panning clamps PC1 and PC0, and their applications together with other Benro equipments.

The following is the official specifications of the two panning clamps, PC1 is larger and with higher loading capacity. Whereas PC0 is more portable.

Let's go more in-depth, starting with the general structure of the clamps.

Benro Universal Quick Release L Plates

In early 2012, Benro released two models of universal quick release L plates, MPU100 and MPU105.

MPU100

MPU105

The L plates are light and handy, and are designed for cameras WITHOUT vertical grip. Using the plates, you can switch your camera orientation easily without rotating your ball head. Both of them are Arca-Swiss compatible, fitting wide range of gears.

Benro 3rd Generation Traveler Tripods

In 2011, Benro launched the third generation of their best selling traveler tripod series - Travel Angel.

In addition to the short folded length property, new features were added to this new product:

• Advanced Monopod Conversion Ability
  (with much longer max. height than the previous generation)
  
• Trekking Pole Conversion Ability

Let's go more in-depth, here we use C1692TB0 as the demonstration.

Benro 2nd Generation Flat Folding Tripods

In 2011, Benro launched the second generation of the innovative Flat Folding Tripods. Similar to its ancestor, it inherited the compact and portable advantage of the Flat series: less than 6cm thin when folded.

Surely, new features were added to make it more functional:

1. Monopod conversion ability
2. 3 Levels leg angle adjustment ability
3. Extremely low minimum height!

Let's go more in-depth, here we use C1192TB0 as the demonstration.

Naming System of Benro Tripods

In 2010, Benro started to modify the naming system of their mainstream tripods, so as to make the model numbers of their tripods be more systematic and meaningful.

The aim of this article is to elaborate the naming system digit by digit, so you could get deeper understanding of the features straight from the tripod model numbers.