A Tripod Product of Landscape Photographers’ Goals: Falcam TreeRoot Quick Lock Pro Tripod Overview

Who says high-capacity help gear must look tough and rugged? This tripod from Falcam provides excellent payload and stability in a smooth and easy design.

Landscape pictures might be the style that has the widest vary of necessities for tripods. Landscape photographers, particularly those that journey lengthy distances carrying their gear, want a very good steadiness between a light-weight tripod that’s straightforward to carry round and a heavy-duty tripod that may face up to the weather. We additionally want tripods that may go excessive in case the shot requires it however, on the identical time, one that may go very low for dynamic foreground compositions. The beefed-up model of Falcam’s respected TreeRoot tripod goals to provide precisely that.

The Falcam TreeRoot QuickLock Pro Tripod

The Falcam TreeRoot QuickLock Pro tripod is a 4-section carbon fiber tripod with comparatively longer leg sections that give it a taller most top. The largest part of every leg is as thick as 30mm, which contributes to the tripod’s spectacular weight capability. When absolutely folded, the tripod is 20.4 inches (51.9 cm) with out the top. When absolutely prolonged, it reaches a top of 60 inches (152.5 cm), which is taller than most journey tripods with a middle column prolonged. When the legs are set to the widest unfold, the tripod can go as little as simply 6.7 inches (17 cm) from the bottom to the bottom of the central joint. The precise top to the digicam would depend upon the ball head getting used, which is 6.5 inches with the elective Falcam x Marsace XB-2R ballhead. 

At the very tip of every leg is a detachable rubber foot that reveals a built-in metallic spike for extra demanding terrain. On every of the leg sections are heavy-duty rubber-coated twist locks which have been particularly designed to launch with a sure pressure threshold after only a 1/3 flip of the lock. This makes positive that the legs don’t by chance launch from an unintentional nudge but in addition supplies a fast option to unlock and prolong the tripod with minimal effort. On the proximal ends of every of the legs are launch buttons for every of the legs’ angles for low-angle pictures and adapting to uneven floor.

On the corners of every of those joints is a pair of ordinary accent ports suitable with 1/4-inch screw threads and Falcam’s F22 plate embedded for fast mounting and launch of their very own vary of friction arms and instruments. These ports can be utilized to mount further cameras or equipment corresponding to prolonged batteries or displays to the setup with out having to make use of different stands.

At the very prime is a 3/8-inch screw for mounting any commonplace tripod head. The TreeRoot QuickLock Pro is obtainable as legs solely or with a bundled Falcam Marsace XB-2R ball head.

The Falcam x Marsace XB-2R Head 

This ballhead is a collaboration design from Falcam and one other tripod model known as Marsace, which built-in their QuickLock design for most likely the quickest mounting of Arca-Swiss mounting plates on any tripod. This 6.5 x 5-inch tall ball head has a payload of 5 kilograms and weighs 454 grams by itself. This doesn’t actually maximize the tripod’s excessive capability of fifty kilograms; nonetheless, realistically, not many photographers would require gear that goes past 5 kilograms anyway.

At the underside of the top is a small pan knob that permits for 360-degree panning movement. It’s accompanied by the big predominant knob that unlocks the ball joint altogether. This predominant knob is encased in exhausting, sturdy rubber with doable attachment factors on the aspect.

Above the ball joint is one other small knob that gives a secondary panning axis proper on the quick-release platform, which rotates whatever the degree of the legs and the top. On the perpendicular aspect to it’s a lever that controls the QuickLock mechanism. This lever requires a single pull backward and triggers the platform to launch the digicam mounting plate. The platform includes a distinctive mechanism match for Falcam’s F38 plates in addition to most different Arca-Swiss format mounting plates. Mounting the digicam requires first aligning one aspect of the plate to the empty aspect of the platform, then urgent down the other aspect to set off the button that engages the lock. This permits for mounting the digicam with one swift movement with one hand.

Application and User Experience

Any form of photographer would admire the tactile distinction of the Falcam TreeRoot tripod line, together with this largest choice, the TreeRoot QuickLock Pro. The legs are formed like flattened tubes in order that they type a near-perfect cylinder when the three legs come collectively. The locks on the distal finish of the legs have been made with twist locks as a substitute of clip locks, supposedly as a result of they’ve extra uniform rigidity across the legs, however in addition they rid the type of the tripod of any sharp edges. The leg sections have been exactly made to be easy sufficient to slip down on their very own as soon as the sections are unlocked, which spares the consumer from having to drag down the leg sections individually.

Any panorama photographer would favor to carry a smaller tripod, however one who desires to be prepared for something would carry exactly what this tripod has to supply. It supplies unquestionable sturdiness and stability, in addition to versatility with digicam top. To add to the expertise, the quick-lock function of the top provides a pleasant contact of ease and effectivity.

Aside from panorama pictures, this tripod is technically an ideal match for something that requires a big tripod with a major payload. With an acceptable head, this tripod can do properly in wildlife pictures and even video. Because of the peak it provides, it may be an ideal choice for capturing cityscapes and structure in addition to capturing lengthy time-lapse sequences.

While this type of the TreeRoot Quick Lock Pro is already dependable and succesful, it could maybe be a whole package deal if it had a modular middle column very like what the smaller model has. That manner, it might attain even larger and be extra adaptive to what the shot entails.

What I Liked

• Heavy-duty and sturdy tripod

• Versatile top and angles

• Smooth construct and nice tactile expertise

• Multiple accent mounting choices

What Can Be Improved