Manfrotto Befree Advanced Carbon Fibre Travel Tripod with Ball Head
The the ideal solution for photographers and observers who are looking for a super-lightweight support that ensures maximum performance on the go. With a maximum payload weight of 8kg, it can be used with cameras, binoculars and spotting scopes alike.
The carbon fibre legs are developed to keep weight down to a minimum while ensuring best-in-class stability and rigidity.
The ergonomic design makes operating your Manfrotto Befree advanced carbon tripod intuitive and fast, enabling even the most demanding photographers to set their equipment up quickly and easily so their focus stays on catching the desired shot.
Featuring a new spider made of lightweight and solid magnesium, it helps to ensure perfect stability on all types of terrain, including the most uneven ones, always keeping your camera or optics completely steady and ready to capture or view stable and sharp images.
The M-lock twist lock makes this tripod a fast, easy to use, compact solution. Moreover, the M-Lock has no protruding parts and its mechanism closes perfectly around the head, enabling the Befree advanced carbon to slip into and out of its storage pocket effortlessly.
The ergonomic leg-angle selector is designed to be used by both right and left-handed users, enabling everyone to change shooting or viewing perspectives intuitively and to find the right tripod height without losing focus on the shot they want to achieve.
Your Manfrotto Befree advanced carbon can easily be set to three independent leg angle positions, guaranteeing full shooting versatility for all the creative ideas that can emerge outdoors.
The lightweight magnesium spider featured on this innovative model also has the Easy Link, just like Manfrotto’s professional 190 & 055 tripods, allowing photographers to enhance their creativity by adding accessories that make their images unique and unforgettable. If you like, adding lights or reflectors, you can now capture amazing outdoor shots that were previously only achievable with heavily accessorised tripods.
The tripod is kitted out with Manfrotto’s advanced 494 aluminium centre ball head (MH494-BH), a small but powerful and intuitive head that allows quick and precise camera movement. The 494 centre ball head features three independent controls: a main knob manages the sphere lock, an integrated friction control knob adjusts the ball tension so that equipment weight is always perfectly balanced, and shots framed effortlessly; an independent panoramic knob keeps the horizon flat and moves the camera horizontally, enabling astonishing landscape shots.
The head mounts a unique plate that makes it fully compatible with the world’s most widespread standard head attachments: Manfrotto RC2 and Arca-swiss style. With this aluminium plate fixed to the camera, all Manfrotto heads and almost all tripod heads on the market featuring Arca-swiss style attachments can be set up rapidly and effortlessly, with no need for disassembly components.
Your Befree advanced carbon is the “top choice" travel tripod for passionate photographers and sports optic users who want maximum lightness and unbeatable performance, even when they’re travelling.
Features:
- Advanced travel tripod kit carbon
- Superior performance with maximum lightness
- Centre ball head with three independent ergonomic controls
- Side pull selector ensures quick setup with both hands
- Unique premium design, 100% made in Italy
Specifications:
- Weight – 1.25kg
- Material – Carbon fibre
- Safety payload – 8kg
- Minimum height – 41cm
- Maximum height – 150cm
- Maximum height (with centre column down) – 127cm
- Closed length – 41cm
- Head type – Ball head
- Legs tube diameter – 11.2, 14.7, 18.2, 21.7mm
- Leg section – 4
- Base diameter – 40mm
- Leg angles – 22°, 54°, 89°
- Attachment – 3/8″ screw
- Ball locking – Yes
- Bubble spirit Level - 2
- Carrying bag included - Yes
- Center column – Rapid
- Easy link – Yes
- Friction control – Yes
- Front tilt – 90° / -32°
- Independent pan lock – Yes
- Leg type – Single
- Leg lock type – Twist Lock
- Pan drag – None
- Panoramic rotation – 360
- Plate type - 200PL PRO
- Quick release – Yes
- Tilt drag – None
- Upper disc diameter – 40mm