Name: Manfrotto Befree Advanced Lever 4-Section Aluminum Travel Tripod with Ball Head and Advanced Gear Backpack III
Brand: Manfrotto
SKU: BGMKBFRLA4BK
Price: 279.95 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4 (12 reviews)

Manfrotto Befree Advanced Lever 4-Section Aluminum Travel Tripod with Ball Head and Advanced Gear Backpack III

Manfrotto Befree Advanced Tripod

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Shop the Manfrotto Befree Advanced Aluminum Tripod with Ball Head. Lightweight, stable, compact, & easy setup. Includes backpack. Order yours today!

An essential companion for advanced hobbyist photographers, the Manfrotto Befree Advanced Lever 4-Section Aluminum Travel Tripod with Ball Head and Advanced Gear Backpack III offers a perfect blend of portability, stability, and innovative design. This travel tripod is engineered to deliver maximum performance, ensuring your camera remains steady on all terrains, even the most uneven, allowing you to capture sharp, stunning images effortlessly.The Befree Advanced features a newly developed spider, providing impeccable stability and a QPL Travel lever locking mechanism. This innovative system, inspired by Manfrotto's professional QPL lever found in the 190 and 055 collections, offers full locking power in a lightweight design ideal for travel. The tripod's ergonomic leg-angle selector is user-friendly for both right and left-handed photographers, allowing seamless adjustments to shooting perspectives and tripod height without losing focus on your shot. With three independent leg angle positions, this tripod ensures versatile shooting options for all your creative outdoor endeavors.Enhancing your photographic creativity, the tripod includes an Easy Link feature, akin to those on Manfrotto's professional tripods, enabling the addition of accessories like lights or reflectors for unique and unforgettable shots. The Manfrotto Advanced 494 aluminum Center ball head, compact yet powerful, facilitates quick and precise camera movements. It boasts three independent controls: a main knob for sphere lock management, an integrated friction control knob for perfect equipment balance, and an independent panoramic knob for horizontal camera movement, ideal for breathtaking landscape photography. The head's unique plate is compatible with the widely used Manfrotto RC2 and Arca-swiss style attachments, ensuring rapid and effortless setup across various tripod heads without disassembly.Complementing the tripod, the Advanced Gear Backpack III is a compact, functional solution for carrying your camera and laptop gear. Designed for DSLRs and CSCs, this backpack accommodates a DSLR with a 70-200 mm f/2.8 lens attached, plus four additional lenses, or a full-frame CSC camera with a 70-200/4 lens and 2-3 extra lenses, alongside a DJI Mavic Air 2 kit. It features a dedicated 15-inch padded laptop pocket for easy access on the go. The backpack's padded camera compartment incorporates the Manfrotto M-Guard Protection System, crafted from high-density EVA foam for exceptional shock absorption and space optimization. The customizable folding patterns ensure maximum protection and efficient use of space.The backpack's design includes fully openable zippered front compartments for quick access, a side strap for attaching a travel-size tripod, and an additional front pocket for personal items and small accessories. Its water-repellent external fabric, reinforced by a supplied rain cover, ensures your gear stays protected in adverse weather conditions. With its robust construction, versatility, and ample storage, the Manfrotto Befree Advanced Lever Tripod and Advanced Gear Backpack III are indispensable for photographers seeking a professional, reliable travel solution.

An excellent tripod for the price! I bought it to replace another Manfrotto tripod that I bought back in 2008.

Excellent value

I go this for my 5D MK IV with Canon MP-E 65 and Macro Rail. Setup and break down are easy. My only complaint is the head adjustment. Making find adjustments is a task to say the least. The head seems to bind. You loosen the know, try to adjust and nothing. Loosen more, try to adjust, nothing. Loosen more..  BAM it lets go quickly. I have tried the little tension adjustment  that is recesses in the knob but it does not help. I can see this tripod being just right for maybe just a camera body and walk around lens or a point and shoot.  Another point of binding is the height adjustment. Once weight is added to the head, unless that weight is perfectly centered, you will get binding. Difficult to raise and lower.

I know I said mostly negative things but I think the issue is that it cannot handle much weight at all. Probably the perfect tripod for really light gear.

Compact , light, quality build... but not without some quirks

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This is a good size, weight and sturdy tripod. I compared with other tripods and this fit my needs - height, weight, closed length and price.

Great cost performance

Be free tripot Advanced is  Best yet I  ever had very good works fine and I love it

Excellent reform of this tripot

I tried first time ,  rc2 plate stuck on the tripod head I am not able use it, planing to return

Rc2 plate got stuck

I loved this tripod. It was a good upgrade. The only complaint I have is that the screws on the legs need to be rotated really tight, otherwise the legs come out easily which is a hassle especially when you are on the go or have tripod attached to the bag.

First experience with Manfrotto Befree Advanced Twist tripod

Great tripod! I love how sturdy it feels standing almost anywhere. Also, the ease of adjusting the legs is amazing! Would definitely recommend.

Great Tripod!

Love this tripod.  I have been shooting all hand held but am ready to take more time to compose and focus rather than just pulling the trigger.  This tripod is both sturdy and light.  I really do not have any 'cons'.  Highly recommended.

Great Tripod at an affordable price

I recommend this tripod. The structure is sound, it is easily adjustable, the latching of the legs is easy to do and the ball head friction knobs work very well. I recommend this as a good value.

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I am thrilled with the quality of this tripod. Manfrotto makes nice equipment, and I am sure that I will be using this tripod for years to come.

Sturdy Ball-head tripod

I got the original Be free and hated it.  I knew going in that in was a little on the flimsy side , but I felt that I was skilled enough to make it work What I didn't foresee was the nearly impossible task of getting the quick (LOL) release plate into the ballhead. It virtually took sometimes up to ten minutes to mount it, unless I just got too frustrated and quit all together. The Be free advanced has a much better system and is slightly sturdier so it should easily handle both my Canon and Fuji gear. The only reason it didn't get 5 stars is because no tripod is perfect just like no camera bag is perfect.  That's why I have more than one. I will say it's perfect for what I intend to use it for.

Manfrotto Befree Advanced Lever 4-Section Aluminum Travel Tripod with Ball Head and Advanced Gear Backpack III

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