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Ravelli ATD Professional Tripod Dolly for Camera Photo and Video | 
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| Brand: Ravelli
Category: Photography
Buy New: $34.00
New (4) from $34.00
Rating:  13 reviews
Media: Electronics
Maximum Weight Recommendation (lbs): 125
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.2
Dimensions (in): 22.7 x 6.8 x 6.2
Weighs Less Than 6lbs
21" Long Folded
37" Footprint
Rated Payload: 125lbs
MPN: ATD
Model: ATD
EAN: 6926420363072
ASIN: B000YB862E
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | All Metal Ball Bearing Casters with Rubber Wheels for Ultra Smooth Roll | | • | One-Step Easy Lock Locking Wheels | | • | Universal Fully Adjustable Leg Locks | | • | Easy Folding Design with Carrying Handle | | • | Heavy Duty Construction for Professional Tripods |
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Product Description
The Ravelli ATD Tripod Dolly is an excellent dolly for use with your professional camera and video tripods, light stands, and background stands.
The most important feature of a good dolly is good wheels. After all, the point of a dolly is to be able to smoothly move your tripod from one place to another. Unlike less expensive models with smaller plastic wheels, our dolly uses large 3" diameter wheels with all metal ball bearings and a rubber outer surface for an ultra smooth roll.
The Assia ATD also features one step easy locking wheels. Once you get the dolly where you want it, all you have to do is "step" on the locks for one or more of the wheels. Some
competing models including the best names such as Bogen, Manfrotto, Quickset, and Linhof require that you get down on your knees to "screw" a separate rubber stopper down to the floor to hold the dolly in position.
The universal leg locks used will fit nearly any tripod. Many of the tripod dollies offered by the competition including the best names such as Bogen, Manfrotto, Quickset, and Linhof have a fixed attachment point at the end of the dolly legs. Ours has a leg grip which slides along the dolly leg going either closer to the center or out to the end. This allows you to adjust the desired level of "spread" for the tripod you are using.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 13
 Tripod dolly June 8, 2010
Mary B. Vitro (Hot Springs, AR)
This works great for our tripods! We use it for classroom/student learning. They create their own videos.
Excellent Contruction for Pro Use March 20, 2010
Klear Image Guy (Roseville, Minnesota United States)
I originally purchased one of these units for a Sony professional camera and tripod. When I received the first unit and placed my camera and tripod on the dolly I knew it would work for my other units. I purchased another unit for my other camera and tripod. This unit rolls great on tile, linoleum, hardwood and concrete floors and not bad on short length carpet floors. If you are thinking about outdoor use, perhaps a jib would be more suited.
Ravelli ATD Professional Tripod Dolly for Video Cam March 20, 2010
J. Alaniz (Mt.View, CA)
Set up in minutes. Just what I needed to maneuver my camera with the least effort.
 It's a dolly, but not a great one March 7, 2010
L. valle (Los Angeles, CA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I hate cliches, but what's that old adage that will accurately describe this thing...ah, yes: You get what you pay for.
At $35 (from cowboy studios) I suppose I shouldnt be expecting the smoothest ride but I just couldnt get that many smooth, flowing tracking shots from this thing. It is functional in that you can fit any tripod into it and it will hold your tripod and move...but no matter how steady your tripod legs/head are, the whole roving unit WILL shake. This was the case for my Canon XH A1 prosumer camcorder and my Canon HV40 consumer camcorder. (Although, the HV40 wasnt as bad)
The wheels are stiff and that might sound like a good thing but the extra force you use to get it moving will translate in the shot, making for an awkward, jagged push when you start it moving. Changing directions, starting and stopping just looks like you're yanking the damn thing just to get it going. To be fair, if you're super steady and are on a solid, smooth and flat surface you could probably get a smooth tracking shot, but for me, I should've spent the extra money to get a better quality dolly.
 Sadly Unusable March 2, 2010
Carl Martin
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been putting together a corporate video and I needed some smooth tracking shots moving around the office. After reading the reviews for this dolly, I thought it would be perfect for the job. Unfortunately, I received the dolly today and the stuttering, uneven wheels add enough camera shake (even on smooth concrete floors) to not only be distracting, but to actually confuse the auto-focus function on my camcorder. I am shooting with a Canon VIXIA HF S100 HD Flash Memory Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom, which, while not revered for it's image stabilization, is still a nice prosumer level HD camcorder. The wheels are also distractingly loud. The whole experience is similar to placing your tripod into a rickety shopping cart.
I couldn't be more disappointed. This dolly had been on my wish list for some time, but now I will be looking into Cheetah Mounts return policies.
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