I have to wonder how much Benro really believes in the concept… Otherwise why is it on Kickstarter rather than via their usual internally funded R&D channels?
I use a leveling head. I don’t need all the angles of a ball head, and the leveling head is more stable, because the (virtual) pivot axis is much closer to the camera’s CoG (it is also lighter and less bulky).
What puzzles me is, why an established, well known company needs to “crowd source” a project? Gitzo did something similar a while back. So did Sirui. Cheap promotion comes to mind.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. The smaller unit is 1.25kg, in the same ballpark as a 2-person (ultralight) tent. Ok for a few hours, very heavy for day hike, out of the question for multi-day trekking.