Tripod Recommendations. Please Help

[Marloon]

I just need a recommendation for tripod legs + heads

Notes:
-I need a tripod for professional use.
-I am using it for photo + video work.
-The maximum weight that i'll have on the tripod would probably be a 2.0 Kg slider, an 85L II (1.025kg), a gripped 5DII (1.2kg).
-I need recommendations for a photo head
-I need recommendations for a video fluid head as i intend to do some panning.

my tripod will see some 75% use of video + 25% use of photo.

I was thinking of using photo legs and just attaching different heads on it. So my list would include a 701HDV pro fluid head (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/504845-REG/Manfrotto_055XPROB_055XPROB_Tripod_Legs_Black_.htm l]manfrotto 055xprob[/URL], a [URL="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/556159-REG/Manfrotto_701HDV_701HDV_Pro_Fluid_Video.html), and a 494RC2 ball head. (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/660319-REG/Manfrotto_494RC2_494_Mini_Ball_Head.html) What do you think?

Thanks.

[jhom]

You might consider a Gitzo 3 Systematic series with video bowl.

[SkipD]

I was thinking of using photo legs and just attaching different heads on it. So my list would include a 701HDV pro fluid head (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/504845-REG/Manfrotto_055XPROB_055XPROB_Tripod_Legs_Black_.htm l]manfrotto 055xprob[/URL], a [URL="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/556159-REG/Manfrotto_701HDV_701HDV_Pro_Fluid_Video.html), and a 494RC2 ball head. (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/660319-REG/Manfrotto_494RC2_494_Mini_Ball_Head.html) What do you think?Forget that dinky little ball head. Go with the 498RC2 instead. Of the three in the family (494, 496, and 498 ), it's the one best suited to tripod use for cameras larger than a large point-n-shoot.

[drial7m1]

190XPROB PRO ALU TRIPOD BLK with a 322RC2 HEAVY DUTY GRIP BALL HEAD. I use this both in and out of the studio right now but will be getting the 055XPROB PRO TRIPOD BLACK for studio use only and then keeping the 190XPROB on my pack for outdoor work.

Douglas.

[Lowner]

I'd forget all about Manfrotto heads and look at the Arca-Swiss QR system as offered by the likes of Kirk, Markins, Wimberley and RRS. The dinky little RC2 system frustrated me as an amateur, lord knows how I'd cope living with it professionally.

I'D be wanting good, bullet proof kit I could rely on at as low a price as I could get it.

[petriej]

I have the Manfrotto 055CXPRO4/488RC4. I love the legs, but the head does leave some to be desired. Lowner is right, look at a Markins, etc.