Camlink TP330 Tripod - Tabletop

This tripod is not bad, but it's not great. It looks like you get a lot for your money, but having had mine for a while now, I'm starting to look for a better one.The action is not smooth. As I bought it for macro work, that's not good. In fact it's a blooming nuisance! Worst of all, is that the tripod can tip over unless you extend all the legs fully. As I have a bridge camera, this is disappointing and I'm sure it wouldn't support an SLR with a weighty lens on. Falling over is obviously not really a great feature in a tripod!The leg locks aren't great. I locked the legs and found one retracted while locked when I applied a little weight to it while positioning my camera. I'm not over the moon about the camera mount either. It's sweet that it's removable, but it's connection to the camera is poor. I'm happy enough with it for the money, but I wouldn't say it's great. I do use it now and then as a mini-tripod, but am looking for a better quality item.On the plus side, although it's a poor tripod, it has become a cool "gun" for my boy to play with. So not all is lost! :-)UPDATE: Having replaced this somewhat wobbly little rascal with another low-level tripod, I was left with what was essentially scrap. Rather than throw it away, I thought I'd try and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. A convenient way to make a tripod more stable is to spread the legs further apart. However, the design of this tripod means that the legs can't open very wide as they are linked to the main column. Enter PP and his hacksaw & drill.First I drilled out the rivets on the top of the plastic leg locks which are linked to the central column. Then I sawed off the bottom of the outer centre column so that it was pretty much flush with the internal column, which is adjustable up and down. Then I splayed the legs as wide as I could without the centre column bottoming out, and passed picture-hanging wire through the holes left by the drilled-out rivets. Once I'd tied the ends of the wire and glued the knot so it couldn't come undone I tried it out. Wow! Now I have a tripod that has a height of less than 9" and as can be seen in the picture I've added, can happily support a Nikon D50 with a fully extended 300mm zoom lens pointed over a gap in the legs, i.e. the least stable place it can rest. I'm afraid you'll have to hunt a little for my picture as another reviewer has added several pictures of the tripod and it's packaging. I think it's worth noting that he has wisely not risked attaching a camera to his tropod! ;-) Additionally I've improved the tripod's smoothness when panning and tilting by adding some silicone lubricant.So now I have a pretty neat little tripod, but only because I engineered it that way. So the 3* review stands.

This is a cheap tripod. There will be compromises! I've used this for six months now mostly for video with camcorder and phone, placing it on a table, and very occasionally for photography. Reviewing the one that I received:The good:1) If looks and operates as you would expect a tripod to do, just cheaper and smaller2) For small cameras it's pretty steady, though with a bit more weight on it you will need to be careful not to knock it if the legs are only partially extended3) It works great on a tabletop to get a camera at eye levelThe bad:1) The head didn't sit quite level - once I removed it (very simple, just remove the thumb screw) I noticed that the plastic part that the head rotates around still had some ridges from the moulding process. Once I filed these down the head sat level and worked a bit more smoothly.2) Don't expect to use this for panning video shots (FYI: I had no such expectations when purchasing this!) - movement of all the parts is quite jerky. Bear that in mind also if you want to use it to pan around for still photography of fast moving subjects (e.g. wildlife and sports) - you might find that you struggle to move the head to exactly where you want it to go. It's almost easier just to pick the tripod up and move it instead! I notice that another reviewer used silicon grease to alleviate this - I might try this too.The ugly:1) The rubber feet smell smokey (quite a strong smell) (at least on the one that I received)2) The rubber feet leave black marks on my white desk if the tripod is moved, and they take a bit of effort to remove.In summary, given what I paid for it, this is a pretty fair deal. If it didn't smell and leave marks I'd have given it 5 stars (for the price point)

In the past, I have balanced my webcam on top of my PC but I needed to be a bit more professional with my videos of the future for once I took notice of The also bought part of to product description, so I met up with  Camlink TP330 Tripod - Tabletop  and I am glad that I did. It is perfect for the use I want to put it to. My problem was looking at my screen and camera at the same time, it always best to look your customer in the eye rather than look shifty by doing anything but. Now I can! It sits perfectly on my desk at the correct height for my webcam and now I can see my script and know I am looking at my customer all for what was a fair price but now carries a discount, taking it way from thinking about it to buying it. The legs can be extended [wish mine could :-)] when the occasion demands it. The tripod is sturdy and easily set up with a spirit level to get everything spot on before recording. It is the ideal piece of equipment that makes your webcam or mobile phone versatile. I am glad that I bought it why no join me, stop thinking and start doing.  Camlink TP330 Tripod - Tabletop

Happy with this tripod. Sitting on my desktop It extends high enough to place my camera at my eye level and can go higher. It seems solid enough and the legs are easily adjusted. It has a built in level for front to back levelling. Not really useful for me. I think I would have preferred a left to right level to helpMe make sure that the camera was not sloping, but that is easy enough to do by eye. I’d also like it if the legs had markings on so that I could easily set the legs to the same length. I ended up using a tape measure which was fine.