STOP Wasting Money on the WRONG TRIPOD for Your Camera

[@noth606]

Missing from this is one rather important fact/factor. Photo VS Video - tripods. Also what the deal is with weight to some degree, for video tripods. The photo vs video is a fairly big one, these days about maybe half of tripods are set up for video, or can be. Anyone getting a tripod for use with video should probably get the heaviest MF'er they can handle. Almost for sure it'll come with a fluid head already or a bundle will. If not it's probably not the tripod you want for video. I'm saying this from experience of making shakycam video with a light photography tripod more than once, and hating it, and then having existential angst watching the cr*p footage that resulted from the tripod being what it was. I still don't have a proper tripod because they cost an arm and a leg, but I have a monopod to prop my self worth up with until I manage to fork up the about grand a proper tripod costs.