Manfrotto Befree GT Carbon Fibre Tripod Kit

The Manfrotto Befree GT Carbon Fibre travel tripod and ball head kit is the ideal solution for professional photographers who need superior performance in the most lightweight format.

Befree GT is the most professionally advanced solution in Manfrotto’s wide range of travel tripods. It is the perfect combination of portability – only 43cm when folded – and impressive stability, ensuring flawless and effortless operation even with a 10kg equipment load. Its ergonomic design makes operation the Manfrotto Befree GT comfortable, fast and secure, enabling even the most demanding photographers to set their equipment up quickly and easily so their focus stays on catching the perfect shot.

Befree GT features a new solid spider developed to ensure maximum stability on all types of terrain, including the most uneven ones, always keeping the camera completely steady and ready to capture the sharpest images.

M-Lock

It features the M-Lock, the new twist lock developed by Manfrotto to satisfy anyone looking for a fast, easy to use, compact solution. Moreover, the M-Lock has no protruding parts and its mechanism closes perfectly around the head, enabling the Befree GT to slip into and out of its storage pocket easily.

Leg-Angle Selector

The Befree GT’s ergonomic leg-angle selector is designed to be used smoothly by both right and left-handed photographers, enabling everyone to change shooting perspectives intuitively and to find the right tripod setting without losing focus on the shot they want.

The Befree GT can easily be set to three independent leg angle positions, guaranteeing full shooting versatility for all the creative ideas that can emerge outdoors. The spider featured on this innovative model also has an Easy Link. This is just like the Manfrotto professional 190 and 055 tripods. This allows photographers to enhance their creativity by adding accessories that make their image unique and unforgettable. If you like adding lights or reflectors you can now capture amazing outdoor shots that were previously only achievable with heavy accessorised tripods.

496 Centre Ball Head

This tripod is kitted out with Manfrotto’s advanced 496 centre ball head, a portable yet powerful and intuitive head that allows smooth and precise camera movement. This advanced ball head combines practicality with high performance and features three independent controls that give it the versatility to suit any environment. A main ergonomic knob manages the sphere lock, an integrated friction control knob adjusts the ball tension so that equipment weight is always perfectly balanced, and shots framed effortlessly. An independent panoramic know keeps the horizon flat and moves the camera horizontally, enabling astonishing landscape shots. Framing on the 496 is easier and opens limitless options, so you can pursue any angle you can think of.

Head Mount

The head mounts a unique plate that makes it fully compatible with the world’s most widespread standard heads attachments: Manfrotto RC2 and Arca-swiss style. With this plate fixed to the camera, all Manfrotto heads and almost all tripods heads on the market feature Arca-swiss style attachments and can be set up rapidly and effortlessly, with no need for disassembly components.