Best Mountaineer Series 3 Carbon Fiber Tripod Tripod Legs

The Gitzo Mountaineer Series 3 Carbon Fiber Tripod is the go-to tripod for the mobile professional. Designed for professional cameras with 300-400mm lenses, the newly redesigned legs using Carbon exact tubes create a tripod that is both lighter and more rigid than previous Gitzo models, ideal for a tripod that needs to be broken down and moved often. When breaking down or setting up the Mountaineer Series 3, the process is made easy with G-Lock Ultra locks, a smoother and softer redesign of Gitzo’s G-lock system. These new locks ensure that dust and grit do not enter the tubes while requiring minimal effort to set.

The Gitzo Mountaineer Series 3 solidifies its place in your equipment with its bevy of adjustment options. The center column can be removed to drop the tripod down to 5.9”, a stabilizing weight can be hooked to the bottom and the tripod offers plenty of grip space and a built-in spring for speedy switching between leg angles

The Gitzo Mountaineer Series 3 Carbon Fiber Tripod is a standard-height 4-section Series 3 tripod, recommended for professional cameras with 300mm lenses (up to a maximum of 400mm). Thanks both to their new design and to the use of Carbon exact tubes, Series 3 Mountaineer tripods are lighter in weight yet more rigid than their predecessors. Top leg section diameter of 32.9mm.

The center column on the tripod can be removed for Ground Level Set up to lowest height of 5.9″. Its four-section legs are secured with twist locks that incorporate G-lock Ultra, which has an internal O-ring to prevent dust and particles from entering the leg system. A ballast hook on the center column allows you to add weight to increase the tripod’s stability.

Features:

• The rapid column can easily be inverted for an alternative shooting angle or low level macro work.
• This built-in accessory allows you to hang a stabilizing weight (e.g. a full camera bag or a sand/water bag) from the bottom of the tripod center column. Useful with long/heavy lenses, on uneven ground or in windy conditions.
• Revolutionary Carbon exact tubes are even stiffer to maximize rigidity and image stability. Carbon exact optimizes the fiber composition for each tube size, using HM (High Modulus) carbon fiber in the narrower tubes to make them stiffer. The tube diameters are also optimized: the final leg section of a 4 section Series 1 tripod is now 22.5% thicker than its predecessor.
• Our G-lock system has been redesigned from the inside out; G-lock Ultra is smoother and softer to use, and is designed to reduce dust and grit from getting in.
• Completely redesigned for faster operation, this Ground Level Set mechanism permits to remove the center column to get the camera closer to the ground. A single simple unlocking ring under the column’s upper disc frees the column while keeping the upper disc solidly in place on the tripod
• Offers large grip space and features a built-in spring to help speed up switches between the 3 leg angles.