Manfrotto 546B Tripod with MVH502A Fluid Head Tripod System Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at my new tripod so this is a manf frto
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something or other can't remember what it is but we'll open it up got really
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good reviews on the uh on the online store that I bought it from so I'm
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hoping that it's that it's awesome it's also rated for the for the weight of my
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new camera which is the Sony fs700 which is right over there so this will be part
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of the whole new setup for lonus Tech
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tips that I extremely excited to bring
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to you now if you guys have been following my channel for a long time
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then you'll probably remember back when I unboxed my Canon XA 10 camera when we
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uh when we first upgraded from our ancient Sony like tape camera that we
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were using before that and what you'll probably also remember is that I don't
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really know anything about about you know AV Equipment at all so me unboxing
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these puts me a little bit out of my element but it's okay because guys like
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Diesel and cameraman will will help me and uh actually better yet they won't
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help me at all they'll just not make it so I don't have to deal with it cuz I
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can handle like ssds and computer hardware but when I get into this kind
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of stuff I just get confused all right so it comes with a carrying sack which
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is nice okay it's like a kid at a candy store
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but they're like diabetic so they can eat the candy but it's like still
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exciting cuz you know it's a candy store and there's lights and sound and you
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know exciting stuff going on okay so there's that so this is a kit it comes
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with woo it comes with a fluid head as well as the tripod unit itself I think
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it's rated for like 12 lb or something like that and our camera is only about
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about 8 lbs maybe I'm thinking kilograms I don't know man okay it's just kind of
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there's probably some kind of feed on the bottom here that are making it hard
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for me to get it in and out of the bag there we go all right so there's our
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there's our baller new tripod so let's
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start with unlocking it which is done
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like this it's got little locks on here to make it so it doesn't just randomly
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come apart pin in that one for some reason okay it's got little rubber feed
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on here see that see that texture and then you can okay these are something I
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don't know what these are for go ahead and sort of take this apart
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somehow whoa and then everything's coming apart now
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awesome this seems to be some kind of like
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stabilization dad that involves this being actually
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quite heavy and difficult to maneuver when I'm holding it up like
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this all right there we go okay so this stance is pretty wide let's go ahead and
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put it right there and then once we've oh yeah we're good we're filming uh see
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you tomorrow okay so we uncp
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these and then I guess it'll extend for us oh there we go there we go that's
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better once we uncp those we can get a better idea what kind of height we're
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going to see with this thing cuz that's how tripods are rated right they're
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rated like in terms of height more height is better actually I don't know
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can't remember giving me a look right now like I said I don't know anything
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about this stuff I just know what the uh what the video folks say we need in
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order to make like more better videos
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and then I try and uh try and make that happen Okay so there's more extension
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here oh okay wow this thing's going to get pretty big indeed before we're done
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with it here U going to have to get this box out of our way look it's like
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growing it's like a Transformer or something actually it's tripod but
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uh okay so it's got about a six foot stance on the thing and it's uh yeah
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about five yeah must be about 5T tall so
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it comes with as I mentioned I've got a kit so it comes with the fluid
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head I forget what the part number is but it's probably some some part number
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or other here I can find out for you guys imagine more something
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something something something yep doesn't doesn't doesn't say anything oh
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yeah yeah mvh502a and then the uh so that's the
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pro video head cool and then the tripod
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itself is the 545 or the 546b or
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something like that so basically to mount it on here all we got to do is
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slide this bad boy in so we already took
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the uh the mounting piece out and put it on the camera so you can hear it clip
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into place there and then you lock it in place using this guy right here and then
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it in theory doesn't go anywhere also comes with one other accessory and
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that's uh this piece right here so we're just going to you can mount it on either
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side if you're a lefty then uh I'm sorry and uh you can but you can still use
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this product I'm just kidding I have nothing
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against left-handed people they're wonderful you know most of the ones I
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met so there we go this oh this probably
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has to uh oh no it looks like this just freely moves oh maybe it just isn't
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quite tight enough yet yeah there we go so once you've tightened it in place to
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or tightened it locked it in place this way then you keep going a little bit
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further and the handle itself locks into place you can adjust the fluidity the
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drag system here as well as here so you
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can either set lots of resistance or very little resistance and then there's
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a level right here to help you make sure that uh well your camera tripod mount
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system is level so there we have it we
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now have our new camera mounted to our
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new
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tripod