Canon Deluxe 200 Tripod: Customer Reviews & Product Details

Tripod is great. Works smoothly. Only drawback is the length when fully broken down is a little long and I ended up packing it in my suitcase. My concern was that it might end up in getting a bend in one of the legs making it less smooth to set up and or/crooked. It made the trip okay but this issue will be an ongoing concern unless I purchase some really tough hardsided luggage.

This tripod from Canon is for basic photo requirements... may be, some portraits and landscapes using wideangle lenses. Poor performance for high zoom pictures, due to rough adjusting mechanism.Lightweight. I would recomend it for very begginers enthusiasts, you get what you pay: economic class tripod.

This is what I should have paid attention to:
"Sure enough, the very first time using the tripod a tiny little piece on one of the plastic snaps that keeps the legs anchored to the center pole broke, allowing the leg to flop around freely with no bracing."

Mine arrived today, nicely packed ... and with that little piece pre-broken at the leg end, not the center pole end.

Gee Mom, I'd rather have broken it myself. Needed (note past tense) it for an awards banquet on 31 January. I have great faith in Canon, was gonna put my new Canon digital camera on top of it. I have gambled, and asked for a replacement, not a refund. I neither want nor expect a high end tripod at ~$40. I do expect it to arrive intact, and last a couple of years of infrequent use before it breaks.

Keep watching this space! I will report on the delivery speed, and physical integrity, of the replacement.

This is an "okay" tripod. But it is cheap so cheaply made. I suspect that it really isn't actually MADE by Canon... just branded for them. I also suspect that Canon hasn't really looked at it. It could also be a pirated item.

Two issues. One the leg clips don't seem to apply much pressure at all so I'm concerned that they will give out after some use and not be able to hold the leg segments in place.

Also, once the leg segments are extended there doesn't seem to be much overlap of the segments... not much of the lower segment inside of the next segment up. This results in the legs not seeming very sturdy.

So far it hasn't broken though but we haven't used it much either.

I have only had the chance to use the tripod a couple of times since purchasing it, but so far it has been great. I can't really ask for much more at 40 bucks. The legs are thicker and more stable than I had expected. I had a sunpack tripod that cost the same and I got a lot less. I do wish that it had a little carying handle on the tripod, but the fact that they include the carying case makes up for it. The quick release plate makes life a whole lot easier. With the quick release plate I am more motivated to take the time to use a tripod. I was photographing next to a guy that had this huge proffesional tripod that must have cost at least 5 or 6 hundred dollars and I felt a little inadequate, but then I figured that he had to start out with a forty dollar tripod at some point. So if you need a starting point this is definately the way to go.