I’ve long been a fan of Benro. The Chinese manufacturer has been going since 1996 and created some of the best tripods for photographers, best carbon tripods, best tripods for videographers, and best travel tripods along the way. Naturally, any great tripod kit is as much about the head as it is about the legs, and Benro has made some superb heads of all sorts. I’ve recently been particularly impressed by the Benro Cyanbird Carbon Tripod with FS30 Head, which works particularly well as a travel tripod for shooting both stills and video, and I’m also very keen on the highly versatile Benro FS20PRO Video & Foto Head.
In both cases, though, these ball heads can be less than ideal when you need to make ultra-fine adjustments. Typical scenarios include landscape photography where you want to keep the horizon absolutely level, architectural photography where you want the walls of buildings to be perfectly vertical, and close-up shooting where tiny positional changes can make a big difference. That’s where this geared head comes in, with its micrometric adjustments for all three axes of movement.
