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| Cullmann 1747 - Monopod | 
 enlarge | Brand: Cullmann
Category: CE
List Price: $109.00
Buy New: $59.95
You Save: $49.05 (45%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Accessory
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Maximum Weight Recommendation (lbs): 5.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: 4007134017474
Model: 1747
EAN: 4007134017474
ASIN: B00005KHSJ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Monopods are particularly popular for nature and sports photography to steady heavy telephoto lenses. Can also be used as an additional microphone or light stand using the three integrated feet. With 2-way tripod head and quick-release-system.
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I was expecting German Engineering, not cheap engineering November 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hike regularly in the hills near where I live, and love to photograph the wildlife that abounds. The camera that I use is relatively heavy, so I have a problem with keeping it steady while taking photographs. Therefore I expected this monopod to solve all my problems. As soon as I received it, I unpacked it and mounted my camera, an Olympus E-5xx with Sigma 50-500 zoom lens on the monopod, and started to lift it up when the camera with the head of the monopod fell to the floor. It seems that the head unit that connects to the camera is held to the rest of the unit with four flimsy little screws, like wood screws less than an eight of an inch in diameter and half an inch long or less. Now the reason one would purchase a monopod would be because the camera is too heavy to be steady when taking a picture. A point and shoot would not be too heavy to hold and shoot without a monopod, but my Olympus was. I was really fortunate that I had lifted it only a short ways above the concrete floor when the camera and monopod head assembly fell off or I could have sustained about fifteen hundred dollars in damaged equipment.
How could the manufacturer have released such a flimsy product? The tubing is very heavy duty, although the knurled knobs to tighten or loosen the telescoping leg assembly were very hard to turn bare handed. Maybe the people engineering the product were stronger than me. The only way I was able to use the monopod was to apply superglue to each of the four plastic interlocking points that connect the head with the rest of the body. For such a heavy item to be held together with such flimsy screws is beyond me. I could not find any recommended load limit for this monopod, which would have warned me of its frailty.
I would rate this monopod unacceptable as designed. I was able to find another monopod with quick release legs which were much easier to set up in the field, although it did not have the tilt/rotate head as the Cullmann unit, for much less. Adding the superglue to the head to body connection would make the unit safer to use.
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