Perfect Outdoor Shooting Product, first using experience of G55C carbon fiber tripod by the sea
The wind breezes, the flower blossoms, the green grows, the spring comes, the April comes. The weather in April is soft; the sea in April is tender.
It is a precious good day, a suitable day for out door shooting. Let鈥s go outside with portable carbon fiber tripod Kingjoy G55C.
Kingjoy G55C is a 4-section carbon fiber tripod of G series. With a packed height of 42cm and a weight of only 1.5kg, it is very portable for landscape photographers who often travels around.
Although it is only a entry-level tripod, with its carbon fiber material and loading capacity of 12kg, it meets the basic requirements of a professional landscape tripod.
The extended height of the tripod is 150cm, reaching around 160cm when the camera is installed. This working height can meet almost all the requirements of customers. Besides, the tripod holds a good stability and impressive appearance.
G55C is a 4-section tripod. There is a hanging hook on the bottom of the center column. When shooting, I hangs a Bluetooth speaker on the hook, so that I can listening to music while doing photography.
The reversible center column is also made from carbon fiber.
G55C is equipped with G0 ball head from the same G series, which is double-grooved and can achieve panorama shooting freely.
There is a horizontal-shooting bubble level in front of the quick release plate for us to adjust the level of the tripod.
The ball head is double lock and damping controlled. With stronger locking ability, it can do overlook shooting easily.
Panorama head gives the photographer a widen view to complete all-angle photography. Tips for panorama shooting: Photographers can take the panorama scale as a reference, shooting successively and connecting each section together to create a panoramic photo.
Angle-adjustment buckle: fold and unfold the leg tubes and adjust the angle
Leg lock system: high density rubber material. Soft to hand touch, drag the tubes out without much efforts.
With non-slip pad, G55 can grip the land tightly, adapting to all kinds of terrains. It remains stable no matter on the sandy beach or uneven ground.
Having taken so much about its details, now let鈥s operate it.
Assemble the camera through quick release plate. Be careful that the fixing knob of QR plate must face us directly so that it is easy to adjust the plate.
After the assembling of camera SONY A7R3, lens CANON 24-105 and an adapter ring, we can achieve overlook shooting and upturned shooting without any shakes. It is even ok to stick the camera out among the surface of sea.
Solid still of G55C. Not afraid of wind and wave. Slow shutter long exposure can be easily achieved.
Find a good angle, make a composition, lock the tripod, and take a shoot. You can see my picture as a reference.
After shooting of the broader scene, now changes the lens into 70-200 to capture the fishing-boat.
When doing long focal longth photography, be sure to equip the lens with quick release plate to increase stability. Though small in size, G55C can easily support the 70-200 lens.
A good completion of long focal longth photography with ND1000 in 25-seconds shutter shows the great stability and load capacity of G55C.
Even set at sandy beach, G55C still gets a strong grip.
Before setting the camera, we should stick the leg tube into the sand. If the land is to uneven, a change of height can be made.
KINGJOY G55C is a high-quality product which can achieve comfort using experience. It is well-behaved no matter in appearance, hand touch or operating experience.
At last, here are two slow-shutter photos shoot by G55C. It is easy to do slow shutter shooting with G55C tripod.
Evaluation of G55C after using:
Kingjoy鈥s carbon fiber tripod, G55C is well made with strong stability, good appearance and comfortable hand touch. And an important point of it is its portability which makes it convenient to use for photographers who traveling a lot. In all, it a worthy carbon fiber tripod under 1000 yuan.