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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh Exmoor" data-source="post: 3341557" data-attributes="member: 114379">I received my CF tripod yesterday and played around with it a little bit. About what I was expecting, so I guess that's good. The legs are solid and light. I was a little surprised at how long they are, but they fit in my checked airline bag which is all I required. Certainly not the lightest legs I've ever used, but considering how high they can get and how solid they seem I think they're fine. The tripod head is acceptable, but not great. It certainly would be a reasonable head for most people using a spotting scope. Heck, I know several birder friends who have $2000 scopes mounted on worse heads than this. That said, I'll be using my Vanguard video head on this (assuming it fits fine) so this was a low priority. The only red flag about the head to me is that I have little faith that I could trust the plate and locking mechanism to hold a scope while I walked around for any period of time. I'd want to carry the two separately and set up when I was going to scope. Mine has a couple QC issues. The first is that their appears to be a spot for a level at the plate where the head screws on, but there is no level? Do other folks have a level? Also, one of the screws on my tripod foot seems threaded wrong. It screws on and off just fine, but you can see it's uneven and tilted.</blockquote>