Bit of a late comment but it's the Ulanzi for me. I too have both but I find the legs on the Ulanzi much more easy to manipulate and of course the price is important. My mate had a Joby and had a leg joint failure, something I'd only heard about but it did happen to him.
The Ulanzi is far superior in every way, I bought a Joby ages ago and after a while it lost most of it's strength and parts fell to pieces , the Ulanzi I paid under £18 for it and does a brilliant job so far. Time will tell how long the legs will last before one of them breaks through constant bending ? however if it does one or two years then you can buy another one as compared to the Joby it's peanuts !
Interesting departure from the norm Mike. I use a Joby tripod to mount the small action camera to things. It's a much smaller version than the one that you've got, without the twiddley bits to adjust the head.....basically I was a cheapskate when I bought it!!! For the larger cameras I use a Manfrotto MKC3-H01 tripod. I only have one of those at the moment but want to get a second (& a couple more mounts for the cameras) so that everything is interchangeable between the two tripods.
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Bit of a late comment but it's the Ulanzi for me. I too have both but I find the legs on the Ulanzi much more easy to manipulate and of course the price is important. My mate had a Joby and had a leg joint failure, something I'd only heard about but it did happen to him.
The Ulanzi is far superior in every way, I bought a Joby ages ago and after a while it lost most of it's strength and parts fell to pieces , the Ulanzi I paid under £18 for it and does a brilliant job so far. Time will tell how long the legs will last before one of them breaks through constant bending ? however if it does one or two years then you can buy another one as compared to the Joby it's peanuts !
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Interesting departure from the norm Mike. I use a Joby tripod to mount the small action camera to things. It's a much smaller version than the one that you've got, without the twiddley bits to adjust the head.....basically I was a cheapskate when I bought it!!!
For the larger cameras I use a Manfrotto MKC3-H01 tripod. I only have one of those at the moment but want to get a second (& a couple more mounts for the cameras) so that everything is interchangeable between the two tripods.
Nice comparison 👌
Have a great Christmas Mike & thanks for your videos this year 👍👏👏
The Joby is junk it’s bulky in the hand the rolling in the ball hand it’s junk