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Peak Design Pro Tipi: Two minute review
Peak design tripod has a pair of unique design features. There is a leg design, which is not tubular, but a six-sided cross section with an inner edge that fits directly against the center column, with no gaps. The center column is the most thinner, but there is also a six-sided cross section for the legs to fit neatly against the legs. This non-tubular construction seems to give abnormal hardness to both legs and center columns.
Another unique feature is a low-profile ball head with no protruding locking walnuts. Instead, it is clamp with a rotating collar, and second, the top and compact ARCA release the Swiss compatible camera plate.
This low profile head design means that the original peak design travel tripi does not need to use its feet before rotating 180 degrees from its folded position. The low height of the head of the ball means that you can simply bend the legs inside and pack it without any complex monvers.
These design features made the original peak design travel tripi very different from anything. The peak design has now taken the same design concepts and extended them into a Pro version designed for serious professional use.
In fact, one supporter is not three but three. Regularly pro -trippai is what I have spent the most time for this review, but I also got to try Pro Light and Pro Tall variants. The Pro Light is an almost the same height and a length of the regular Pro Tripod length, but a mild construction for easy portability. The long version consists of long legs segments and can reach the eye levels for long people without any center column extensions – it exceeded my eye level!
The new Pro Tipods are not just larger and more enough than the original trip -tipi – they have a new Pro ball head that is larger and more sufficient than the original, as well as a clean ‘inverted’ design so that the PAN ax ax does not top above the ball. This means that you can level the PAN axes for shots and panorama without fidal along the length of the foot. This is not a huge range of adjustment, but it may require you all.
For more extreme PAN axis adjustment, or if you have a lot of work video, peak design has covered you. There are two new ‘mode’ to go with these tripods: one tilt head for video work, and the other a leveling bowl that you swap with the standard center column, and there is a regular head attachment screw so that you can use your favorite video head if you want.
I like the original peak design trip tripi very much, so new supporters impress me? Yes! This, literally, is like using scaled versions of the travel trippai. The legs of carbon fibers just feel smooth and warm to touch, leg clamps are simply as quick and positive, and because these Pro have four legs segments instead of five, they are slightly sharp to install.
The new pro ball head is terrible. It is large and chunky, it gets tight and does not add perfectly to the height of the tripod when you are packing. As before, there are no protruding knobs or liver to get on the way.
The peak design of a rotating collar is used slightly to lock the QR plate. The head has two collar in closeness and first of all it can be a conflict to remember what and how they work.
The new pro head, however, looks absolutely rock solid, and it is with pan and tilt modes that it becomes really clever. All you have to do is to regularly take out the Arca Swiss plate and slot in the pan and add-on for a proper fluid pan and tilt action.
There is an extended panning handle that is stovered against the head of the head through a magnet (peak design loves magnet) and can be quickly spoiled in the head prepared for use. It sounds like a kludge, one head is mounted over the other, but it is not at all. It seems that it was designed to work in this way, and it seems. The tilt axis is tossed, by the way, so if you use a long camera plate, you should be able to balance it quite well for light and controlled tilt movements.
The center column on these tripods is longer than one of the original travel tripets, which is useful, but even though they are fixed with a small looking locking knob, they really tight and lock without flex.
You can also get a pointed legs, but these are an alternative extra, nor do they feel that the peak design includes a phone clamp with these tripets, so it will be an additional additional. This makes sense because these Pro Tripods are overcome for the use of the phone anyway. If you get the phone mount, it will still slide to the base of the center column for storage. Here, the peak design is stuck with its slightly complex pull-and-twist hook release that is easy when you have learned how it works but at first it can be annoying.
So this peak design is a quick tour of Pro Tipi, but which is the best to get? This is quite difficult because they are somewhat similar, both in size and price. Standard Pro Tripod is expected to be sold in $ 899.95. When it goes on a complete sale in November 2025, the lighter pro light will be $ 799.95 and Pro Tall $ 999.95. I have not yet seen prices for UK or Australia.
Personally, I will not go for Pro Light. I can understand logic – this is a slightly lighter, slightly cheaper option for a regular pro model – but it’s not too small and I think I will pay extra for the rough legs of the pro model. Pro Tall is interesting, though. If I was 6 feet tall and did not like to use the center columns, I would go for it. It is definitely long when packed away, but all these tripods are too long to fit inside a backpack anyway and will move outwards. In addition, for those times when you did not need extra height, you can only expand the three leg classes to four, and even more stability.
Peak Design Pro Tipi: Key Glasses
| Header Cell – Column 0 |
light |
Furore |
Long |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Packed length |
48.8 cm |
50.1 cm |
58.1 cm |
|
Pack diameter |
8.5 cm |
9.3 cm |
9.3 cm |
|
Maximum height, center column down |
133.2 cm |
138.0 cm |
162.0 cm |
|
Maximum height, center column up |
162.5 cm |
168.4 cm |
197.4 cm |
|
Minimum height (low mode) |
15.8 cm |
15.9 cm |
17.3 cm |
|
weight |
3.74lbs / 1.7 kg |
4.19lbs / 1.9 kg |
4.4LBS / 2.0 kg |
|
Maximum payload |
15.9 kg |
18.1kg |
18.1kg |
|
Head |
Integrated supporter ball head |
Integrated supporter ball head |
Integrated supporter ball head |
|
Material |
Carbon fiber |
Carbon fiber |
Carbon fiber |
|
Leg section |
4 |
4 |
4 |
Peak Design Pro Tippai Price and Availability
Peak Design Pro Tripods launch on the kickstarter on 17 July 2025, but are expected to go on normal sales in November 2025. The expected price of the Pro Light Tipi is $ 799.95, the Pro Tripod will be $ 899.99 and the Pro will be sold for $ 999.99.
The tilt modes and the pro leveling base will be sold separately and we are currently waiting for the price information on them, but we are told that the spiced legs will be sold in $ 49.95.
Peak Design Pro Tipi: Consider also
Should I buy a peak design pro tripi?
Buy it if …
Do not buy it if …
How did I test peak design pro tripods
- Operational speed and efficiency
- Rigidity and hardness
- Ball head operation
- Ad-on effectiveness
I had just two weeks to try the peak design Pro Tripods because the loan stocks were in low supply and were shared between many different reviewers. However, I know the original peak design trip tripi is very well and I review the tripod as part of my work, so I already had a list that I was looking and these new supporters were expected from the trippai.
I wanted to test the speed and ease of deployment especially and was pleased to find that this original journey was clever with the trippai, but thanks to the fast, 4-section legs and big leg clamps. I also wanted to check whether the excellent hardness of the original journey tripod extended these new, large sizes, and it is. I do not remember that I have remembered any other trippai that I have tested with more torsion hardness and lack of leg flakes.
I was also curious to check how the new Pro Ball Head worked. The original was good, but quite small and Fidli. This is a much better. Not only does it get tight and holds heavy loads better, the design of the inverted ball makes the camera easier to paning the shots.
Finally, I spent some time spent and impressed in an attempt to Tilt Mod and Pro Leveling Base. The tilt mode fixes the pro ball head so well that they feel like a single (very smooth) unit and it takes a minute to swap the pro leveling base with a regular column, but you allow you to use your own tripod head.
June 2025 reviewed for the first time
