 Best thing since sliced bread! |
| Review Date: February 22, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Sherlock, Lancaster, Kentucky USA |
| I love this monopod! I'm a person who uses my camera nearly every day (Canon EOS Elan 7 35mm). This item is one of my favorite accessories for the camera -- so much easier to travel with than a tripod! It's sturdy, but lightweight, easy to use and is very portable. I am mostly using the monopod to support my camera with an enormous, extremely heavy 500mm telephoto lens attached. I'm actually able to hold that huge lens steady with just the monopod -- not one blurry photo! I've dragged it all over the Bluegrass of Kentucky ... across fields of horse farms, and even to the racetrack. I've taken it out into the wilderness to photograph elk. I had to keep closing it down and extending it out every time we got in and out of the vehicle, which was often. Also recently traveled all over Arizona with it to the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Canyon De Chelley, etc. I was constantly opening and closing it, taking literally hundreds of photos (about 14 rolls) with no problems at all. I'm wondering if the other reviewer just got a defective one. I wish I'd bought one of these years ago! I highly recommend it. |
Best Monopod at a GREAT Price
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| Review Date: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Brian D. Reed, Denver, Colorado |
I purchased this monopod a couple of weeks ago now because I am shooting a Canon 20D with the Canon EF 100mm-400mm f/4.5 L IS lens. I also purchased the BG-E2 Battery Grip and the E1 Hand Grip thinking those would be enough to help steady the camera enough with this L lens on the front. I was wrong. I still love my hand grip for security reasons with my other lenses, and my battery grip I can't say enough about. This monopod, however, is the ABSOLUTE BEST. My shots have improved to the point where I have literally no blurry pictures at all. I have shot well over 5,000 frames using this monopod and I have only had maybe 10 shots that were blurry.
I attach the monopod to the ring mount on the lens and just start firing away with absolute confidence that my shots are going to be perfect. And they are. The monopod can handle the weight in the horizontal mode just fine. The vertical mode is a bit weak with the support, but it's not that big of a deal.
I stand 6'4" tall and the monopod is the perfect shooting height for me. I don't have to bend over at all to look through the eye-piece on the camera.
This is a PERFECT addition to my equipment and I am loving this. |
Great Buy
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| Review Date: August 5, 2007 |
| Reviewer: R. Sutton, Rio Vista, CA USA |
One of the best buys I've made. Very well constructed and very light weight. I toyed with buying a unit that had a more traditional pan and tilt head with handle but .... why? This simple to operate head does a great job. I took some shots in a museum under very bad lighting and a 3 second exposures, came out great with this monopod.
UPDATE: December 2009 -
I have adapted this mono pod to become a mini-Body-Pod.
A description. I removed the little hand strap and added a shoulder strap in its place. I purchased a waist flag pole carrier that's really just a belt with a cup that would normally carry the bottom of a flag staff in a parade.
Here's how it works..... The monopod is kept collapsed (no leg extension at all) and the bottom of the monopod leg in dropped into the flag pole cup on the belt. The belt is worn so the cup is at waist level in front. The shoulder strap is worn around the neck as a camera strap might be worn. If need be, the monopod leg length can then be adjusted to rsise the camera to 'your' viewing height.
What you have is a hands free camera carrier. This is great for both still cameras with a long lens and for video cameras. It s a very stable platform for both. It makes it very easy to smoothly pan right/left for video and stills or to hold the shot place for long periods.
(You can find the "Waist Style Flag Carrier" via Google or, [...] )
This rig also works very well in locations where a tripod and monopods are not allowed.
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Perfect.....(and cheap)
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| Review Date: February 1, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Cecele Alexa, NJ |
| The Canon monopod is very light, very well built, and though it is compact when folded, it offers outstanding maximum height. If you have never used a monopod before, it will become a favorite tool. Given the quality and price, the Canon unit is about as good as they get. Very well done. |
It works and the price is right.
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| Review Date: February 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Michael McKee, Port Townsend, WA United States |
I shoot a lot of telephoto pictures and hate lugging a tripod around. This monopod, combined with the image stabilizer in my camera allows me to take some nice close-ups of birds with minimum hassle and without the extra weight and bother of a tripod. The results are not quite as sharp those I get with my tripod but are mostly quite good enough. They are noticeably crisper than hand held.
Combined with a quick release attachment for my camera it also doubles as walking stick, which is very handy when negotiating slippery stream beds.The pan head seems a bit fragile being made of plastic but seems to hold my less than 2 pound camera/lens combination quite well and it rotates smoothly. I don't know how durable it is but so far so good. The monopod also strikes a nice balance between weight and stability. I'm satisfied
1 Year Update:
The ball head is getting a little loose and requires quite a bit of torque to keep the camera level. This is using an ultra-zoom. For landscape mode it's still fine but turning the camera on its side for portrait view shots it tends to flop. I do use it often but am looking to buying a metal head model especially now that I'm transitioning to a DSLR with a hefty zoom. The ball head on this is not robust enough to handle a two plus pound camera, though I don't imaging that this monopod was ever intended for that use. |
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