The best photographic combination would be composed of both good camera and good tripod. A real cost-effective carbon fiber tripod—Review of KINGJOY G55C

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Before start, let me show you a 15-second shutter photo. It is shot by long exposure at dusk with ND1000 whose setting is aperture F8, ISO100. It is just a picture shot at the wetland park downstairs from my house.

Canon 5D4 set + Kingjoy G55C+ND1000 ND filter

September! I bought a second-hand 50mmF1.2L for five thousand and this carbon fiber tripod for 478. Except for the relatively simple tripod bag, Kingjoy G55C brings me many surprises! ! !

Newly bought Kingjoy G55C, Canon 50mmF1.2L

This carbon fiber tripod weighs only 1.25 kg (data from the official website), and it is easy to hold within one hand even when packed in the box. In addition to light, it is also very portable to travel with.

G55C holding within one hand

Unboxing, from left to right: packaging box, Kingjoy G55C, manual, tool kit, desiccant and tripod bag.

The tripod bag is a very simple non-woven bag. But if you think of its price of less than five hundred, it's acceptable. When packed it up, you would be surprised at its light weight. It doesn't weigh much. And with a simple structure, the tripod can be taken out very quickly and easily.

Light tripod bag, easy to carry around

Reversible design. When I receive the new tripod, every knob of it is at a relatively tight level. Well, I am OK with that. I think tight is better than loose, because who knows, maybe one day you will forget to bring you tool kit out when shooting.

Reversed G55C

The carbon material is really comfortable to touch. Thank god. That would be of a great help when I go back to shoot at my hometown in the north during the Chinese New Year. Using aluminum alloy tripod in the north is a real suffer. At that time I still used 70D.

Take a photo of my new equipment

Let's talk about the newly bought 50mmF1.2L. The focus is accurate and fast on 5D4. It was said that the focus often runs out on 5D3. It seems that 5D4 fixes this problem perfectly.

Then let’s talk about the newly bought Kingjoy G55C. Carbon fiber material, lightweight and portable, four-section folded storage, compact to fold, thick legs, reliable and precise bottom bracket connection, detachable monopod.

Let's install the camera and have a test.

Quick release plate

Put camera on

All in one go, smooth and fast

By the way, the minimum aperture of Canon 50F1.2 is a little small, you can see that I set it at the smallest F16 but the shutter is still 1/20. So I can't take nice pictures. I have to wait, wait for the sun to go down some more.

I really like the touch feel of the carbon fiber tripod

The drawing is smooth, and when retracting, there is a feeling of air resistant

Four-section Kingjoy G55C

Oh, my height can not be kept secret. I am 167cm, and this tripod is 155cm when fully extended. At this height, I can not even reach the viewfinder of the camera. So this tripod is enough for people of 185cm.

Fully expanded of 155cm

You can’t do anything about your height! So I will just retract the central column. Without a lifted central column, the height of the tripod still meets my needs well.

Lower the central column and adjust it to a suitable position

Put on the lens of 50mm F1.2L to take pictures this time. You may see the picture.

Put on the lens of 24-105

1.2 full-open aperture,there will be a purple fringing, narrow it down, I will show you the details of the Kingjoy G55C.

Feel the texture details of Kingjoy G55C, and depth of field of 50L

In this scene, although the lens has an aperture of F22, when the sun continues to set and the shutter is slowed down, I am not sure about its function. So I always carry a ND1000 in my camera bag.

Install ND1000 on the lens

After using ND1000, my shutter speed immediately went down. In order to avoid being too slow, I had to increase the ISO to 200 and the aperture to F6.3. There’s no other way, I don't have ND64. If I don't do that,I have to use door B.

15-second shutter, Canon 5D4 and Kingjoy G55C

With a 15-second shutter, there is no need for a shutter release. Also because I have no shutter release here. My understanding toward this is that if the shutter is longer than 2 seconds, it does not matter whether the shutter release is used or not.

15-second exposure is over, the details are clear after zooming in

Stable as a rock, Kingjoy G55C. Let me show you the picture.

15 seconds long exposure, 5D4 on the tripod of Kingjoy G55C

The enlarged view of the focus position is as follows:

100% magnification of focused soil bumps

So bro, we can draw a rough conclusion. Kingjoy G55C can hold a full-frame SLR stably without any problem.

Then how about G55C’s performance when equipped with heavier lens. I brought Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM. This lens is 1500 grams, when 900 grams of camera body, the total weight is less than3kg. Let's install it.

Install the QR-plate of G55C on the telephoto lens

Install the head of Kingjoy G55C and lock.

The sun is lower now. Without the ND lens, a 1.6-second shutter is also available. Of course, this has something to do with the telephoto lens and smaller aperture.

5D4+70-200mmF2.8IS L on Kingjoy G55C

With the 1.6 s shutter, you can't press the shutter directly. Then I think of my 5D4’s function of touch screen shooting. This can lower the shaking of press the shooting button. Now, let’s see how it works in stability.

You can see it sharp and clear on the screen

Just as the picture shows, Kingjoy G55C can support camera equipment up to five kilograms without any pressure.

You can see bro, it’s clear and sharp

The ghost in the upper left corner is the person walking under the 1.6-second shutter.

From this point of view, though this carbon fiber tripod weighs only 1.25kg, it can provide enough reliable support to normal lens or heavy telephoto lens. And its price is less than five hundred, which is indeed a surprise. The experienced photographers said that one should use 1/3 budget of a camera lens to buy a tripod. But we only spent less than 2% on this tripod.

Kingjoy G55C with a price of 478yuan, equals to only 1.5% of the price of the camera lens.

As for the performance of the monopod, I have to find a place with a lot of people and try focusing shooting. It's not working right now. Because it is a working day and there are too few people. Also the light is dimmed. So maybe I ‘ll try next time.