u/DanielMaitheny

Budget Tripods - Rollei vs Smallrig

Budget Tripods - Rollei vs Smallrig

Hey everyone, I'm planning to buy a tripod for my camera, which is a Nikon Z5. I'm only an amateur/enthusiast photographer, so I don't own heavy 3-4-500mm lenses (right now I have a Viltrox 40/2.5 on the Z5, and a couple of vintage lenses), and I don't intend to make videos either (maybe occasionally). I've been checking out budget tripods, and these two (Rollei and SmallRig) offer pretty much everything what I need - I think. They are similarly priced and have very-very similar features, in fact, they look like clones or exact copies of each other - the only difference is their max load capacity (but that could be a typo on the official site, b/c other similar tripods can hold around 8-10 kgs, so... I don't know). Sadly, I'm not familiar with either of these brands. Well, that's not quite true - I owned and used Rollei film negatives in the past, and I often see camera frames and L-frames with youtubers, but other than that, nothing. So my question is: which is the better option, which one of these two brands are more reliable? Generally speaking, are these reliable (tripod) brands at all? By the way, these are under ~100Euros/USD, and right now I don't want to spend more, so please, don't suggest Manfrottos and such, b/c I checked them out, I know they are amazing and would be good investments on the long run, but sadly, I cannot afford them. Thanks for any help.

u/DanielMaitheny — 1 day ago
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Understanding SD card symbols

Hey, I'm planning to buy a new Nikon full frame camera, the Z5 I to be precise, so I need UHS-II cards. I've been checking out what is the best offer right now, and - so far - this Kingston looks quite promising to me. Sadly, the last time I bought SD cards was around 2017-ish, and since then quite a few things have changed, so I had to check what all these symbols mean. As far as I know SDHC cards can be only 32 GB max, if it's 64GB (or more) - like this one - that should be an SDXC card technically. So what's going on here? Is this a fake Kingston card? Is it a misprint? Can someone help me? Thank you, guys.

u/DanielMaitheny — 9 days ago