I'm really impressed with this. Maybe because I haven't tried the "more professional" class models, but I haven't spent close to $200 either. So far, so good. True, as in my case you have to tighten it up a bit to make it stay, I would say it's just common sense to use it the way I am. Tried with stars, macro, even rotated the camera 90 degrees for a vertical shot. It fits all four of my tripods with two different thread sizes on the base or sits flat and stable on its own. As you can see from…