Benro 3-Way Geared Head (GD3WH)

This mount is awesome! I can use my Nikon P1000 to lock onto planets and get steady shots. With my other mounts it’s way too hard to fine adjust at full zoom and have the target still on the screen. I’ve gotten lots of astrophotography shots once I got this mount, before that the moon and sun were the only sky shots I could get. Got the blood moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and plenty of other space targets. The pictures I’m sharing are shot with only a Nikon Camera, no scope. Jupiter required a steady 30 second video to stack frames from and this mount held nice n steady. Any other mounts would have been shaky and not as centered

Excellent item, perfect for micro adjustments when aligning one’s composition

Just awesome. I like the coarse/fine adjustment.

Solid very well-constructed geared head! The quick-release mechanism is a little hard to use, but the tradeoff is a solid head with no play at all.

PROS:It's about perfect for my particular application, at a price point that is not too discouraging.I find the stiffness of the fine adjustment just about right. I haven't found that I need to use the course adjustment. People find them far too stiff but for me, my course adjustment is just moving the tripod.CONS:Mounting - It wasn't intuitive how to mount the head on a standard tripod. It was a big concern of mine when I ordered - whether or not it would mount without some kind of adapter - and it's not really shown well or discussed in the Amazon listing. What you get is a 3/8 male thread. This did not automatically mount on my ZOMEI tripod. It's a boom tripod and I was able to adapt the boom to the Bento geared head - so that was successful however my lower priced Vivitar tripod - which has a standard camera mount - would not accept the Benro head. I would guess that photographers and artists that need this type of head have a more professional type of tripod anyway - but be aware of the mounting requirement when ordering the Benro. You might need a male-male 3/8 adapter, or a 1/4 - 3/8 adapter, or some combination thereof.I want to reiterate my overall satisfaction with this product. The build feels sturdy, and the movements are smooth and with very little backlash. It does what I need at a price I can afford. I would recommend it to anyone who needs a geared tripod head.

I used this geared tripod head to photograph the total eclipse. It's much better than the original ball head or the video head for this application. With the geared head, I could make small, fine changes in aiming the camera to keep tracking the sun. In contrast, my video head is much better for making larger shifts and it tends to shift slightly when being resecured; and I feel that it's also harder to make the fine adjustments for tracking the sun. The Benro also has an Arca-Swiss clamp, and this matches well with my large lens, which has an Arca-Swiss compatible plate on its foot. Some of the other geared heads I looked at did not and might have required me to attach an adapter plate to the lens foot.

Delivery prompt packaging very strong and sturdy. I'm pleased with the Benro 3-Geared Head

It’s perfect. Wish I got it sooner