About the authorĪs well as running Edinburgh Photography Workshop, Rich Dyson is a professional photographer. You can sign up for the Edinburgh Photography Workshop monthly newsletter, where you’ll get regular updates on exciting things happening in photography and some great tips. If you’ve got any questions or comments, leave them below. In that case, I am not saying that I wouldn’t want to try out new products, just that I’d like to be able to really put it through its paces before expressing a long-term opinion. Suppose anyone is reading this from Slik or indeed any other camera good supplier. I hope you have enjoyed a product review that is a little more objective, rather than influencer led or rushed to meet a product launch. Given that the build quality seems much better than the competitors I have used in the past, it should be as economically good as it is functional in the long term. Compared to similar products, I would say this is about standard. Look carefully, and you can probably get it on a famous shopping site for closer to £250 including VAT. The legs are distributed in the UK by Holdan Ltd, who quote the RRP at £266 + VAT (£312). Based on this law, you would expect to be paying big bucks. Less weight, more stability and less cost – the problem is you can only ever have two of the three. I have a rule of tripods: there are three things you want in a set of legs. I would recommend it to any photographer. If I were scoring it, then it would be a solid 9 out of 10 performer.
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I think you can see that I believe the Slik PRO CF-833 is a good performing tripod. Give me that, and I think we may have ourselves the perfect tripod! The money stuff I would love to be able to insert the centre column at 90 degrees to the legs. Inverting the centre column and then angling the camera on the tripod head kind of works, but it’s not a perfect system. I sometimes shoot food photography, and quite often, clients want a top-down picture of the dishes. However, I have one minor bugbear that I would love to see a solution to. Slik has done a fantastic job making such a simple tool for photographers to work for them in the field. I am yet to find the perfect anything, whether it is camera bodies, lenses, flashes or, in this case, tripods. Inside the tripod legs is an anti-rotational system that stops the legs from rotating into each other. I have been on beaches, in the rain and the cold, and the twist-lock system works brilliantly. After six months of hard use of the Slik PRO CF-833, I haven’t had any issues with the sections seizing or not locking. The issue with the last tripod was that the legs were constantly seizing. When I buy something photography related, it is because I want it to solve a problem. I’ve certainly had no issues with the Slik PRO CF-833 suffering from being blown over in gusty conditions.
Despite the lightweight profile, the tripod is sturdy – the advertised handling capacity is 7kg. However, it beats many other tripods with the capability to extend to 1.71m while folding to just 60cm.
It still weighs in at 1.55kg without a tripod head attached, so it sits at the ‘top end’ of travel tripod weights. That means that it is going to be lighter than a similar-sized tripod made of aluminium. The Slik PRO CF-88 tripod is made of carbon fibre. So you know that reading this review results from using the Slik brand for a good period without financial influence. I paid my own money to buy the tripod – it wasn’t given to me, as is the case with most of my gear. The critical statement is “I” made the switch. I made the switch from Manfrotto to Slik in March 2021, frustrated with the number of times legs would seize, even with a good cleaning routine after each shoot. So why am I reviewing the Slik PRO CF-833 tripod legs this week? It isn’t a new tripod, not even to me. Second, some reviewers are influencers and paid to promote a product. First, they are often associated with product launches, so the reviewer is only given a couple of days of use before writing their prose. I generally don’t like them! There are two reasons. I am going to make a somewhat controversial statement about product reviews.
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