 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at my new tripod. So this is a Manfrotto something or other. Can't remember what it is, but we'll open it up. Got really good reviews on the online store that I bought it from. So I'm hoping that it's awesome. It's also rated for the weight of my new camera, which is a Sony FS700, which is right over there. So this will be part of the whole new setup for Linus Tech Tips that I am extremely excited to bring to you. Now if you guys have been following my channel for a long time, then you'll probably remember back when I unboxed my Canon X-A10 camera when we first upgraded from our ancient Sony like tape camera that we were using before that. And what you'll probably also remember is that I don't really know anything about AV equipment at all. So me unboxing these puts me a little bit out of my element, but it's okay because guys like Diesel and Cameraman will help me. And actually better yet, they won't help me at all. They'll just not make it so I don't have to deal with it. Because I can handle like SSDs and computer hardware, but when I get into this kind of stuff I just get confused. Alright so it comes with a carrying sack, which is nice. It's like a kit at a candy store, but they're like diabetic so they can't eat the candy, but it's like still exciting because you know it's a candy store and there's lights and sound and you know exciting stuff going on. So there's that. So this is a kit, it comes with a fluid head as well as the tripod unit itself. I think it's rated for like 12 pounds or something like that. And our camera's only about 8 pounds, maybe I'm thinking kilograms, I don't know man. Okay, it's just kind of, ehh. There's probably some kind of feet on the bottom here that are making it hard for me to get it in and out of the bag. There we go. Alright, so there's our baller new tripod. So let's start with unlocking it, which is done like this. It's got little locks on here to make it so it doesn't just randomly come apart. There's a little pin in that one for some reason. Okay, it's got little rubber feet on here. See that? See that texture? And then you can, okay these are something, I don't know what these are for. Go ahead and sort of take this apart somehow. Whoa! And then everything's coming apart now. Awesome. This seems to be some kind of like stabilization doodad that involves this being actually quite heavy and difficult to maneuver when I'm holding it up like this. Alright there we go. Okay, so the stance is pretty wide. Go ahead and put it right there. And then once we've, oh yeah we're good, we're filming. See you tomorrow. Okay, so we unclip these. And then I guess it'll extend for us. Oh there we go, there we go. That's better. Once we unclip those we can get a better idea what kind of height we're going to see with this thing. Because that's how tripods are rated right? They're rated like in terms of height. More height is better. Actually I don't know. The camera man is giving me a look right now. Like I said, I don't know anything about this stuff. I just know what the video folks say we need in order to make like more better videos and then I try and make that happen. Okay, so there's more extension here. Oh okay. Wow this thing is going to get pretty big indeed before we're done with it here. I'm going to have to get this box out of our way. Look it's like growing. It's like a transformer or something. Actually it's a tripod but uh. So it's got about a six foot stance on the thing and it's uh, yeah about five, yeah it must be about five feet tall. So it comes with, as I mentioned I've got a kit so it comes with the fluid head. I forget what the part number is but it's probably some part number or other. Here I can find out for you guys. Imagine more, something something, something something, yep doesn't say anything. Oh yeah MVH502A and then the uh, so that's the pro video head. Cool. And the tripod itself is the 545 or the 546B or something like that. So basically to mount it on here all we got to do is slide this bad boy in. So we already took the uh, the mounting piece out and put it on the camera so you can hear it clip into place there and then you lock it in place using this guy right here and then it in theory doesn't go anywhere. Also comes with one other accessory and that's uh, this piece right here. So we're just gonna, you can mount it on either side if you're a lefty then uh, I'm sorry and uh you can, but you can still use this product. I'm just kidding I have nothing against left handed people they're wonderful. You know most of the ones I met. So there we go. This, oh this probably has to uh, I don't know it looks like this just freely moves. Oh maybe it just isn't quite tight enough yet. Yeah there we go so once you've tightened it in place, or tightened it, locked it in place this way then you keep going a little bit further and the handle itself locks into place. You can adjust the fluidity, the drag system here as well as here. So you can either set lots of resistance or very little resistance and then there's a level right here to help you make sure that uh, well your camera tripod mount system is level. So there we have it. We now have our new camera mounted to our new tripod.