Quote Originally Posted by piiooo


As far as true stability goes, the best way of finding out is to test it yourself, IMHO. Unscrew the head and you should have a thread that matches your camera. Take the tripod for a test shot.



One good way to test it out, if your camera body supports LiveView, is to put on your longest lens, focus on a distant target with printing on it that you can read, turn on LiveView, and zoom to 10x. If the image in the LCD is stable, you have a good tripod.