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25 August 2021
Lighter alternative to the Manfrotto 410 geared head; seems well made
Geared heads are great for architectural photography (and landscape), but they’re heavy. Carrying a carbon fiber tripod with a geared head attached tends to unbalance the tripod when it’s being carried, and in any case, extra weight is seldom the best accessory for photography in the field. I sold my Manfrotto 410 geared head and bought the Benro GD3WH as a way to shed a bit more than a pound of weight at the top of my tripod. The Benro is made of metal and the whole thing feels well-built. But it still manages to be 460 grams (about 1 pound) lighter than the Manfrotto and works in much the same way. It’s also less expensive than the 410 and has a well-designed Arca-Swiss clamp rather than the proprietary clamp that comes on the Manfrotto 410. The clamp matched perfectly with both a Kirk L-bracket and with the Peak Design Arca-Swiss compatible plate.
Like the Manfrotto, if you’re doing precise panoramas, you may want to mount your camera on a slider to center the horizontal rotation exactly over the vertical axis, because both heads are designed with the camera mount offset from the axis.