Railway Track Fittings

The bottom line: these things provide great grip and glamour when placed on your Manfrotto tripod. As others have mentioned, these take some strategy when installing. Your best bet: have someone hold the tripod steady, or stabilize it in some fashion. Then use each of your index fingers -- one on each end, pointing at one another -- to guide/push the zipper head end, while running the other one up the railway, thus bringing the sides together and keeping the fabric from overlapping and getting caught. It also helps, on the railway end, to use your middle finger and thumb to bring the sides up and together. Before I figured this out, I was actually shaking with the force required to pull the zipper -- not to mention my fingertips were raw! Since there are three of them, you're in for a serious wrestling match! BTW: When placed on the tripod, these covers provide the perfect grip, particularly if you're wearing knit or non-leather gloves. And if you aren't wearing gloves, they sure beat away the bone-chill, too. Love 'em!

for a tube of metal with different fittings on either end it feels really nice

Everything works as advertised. All the fittings are good. I would purchase this again.

Built well and versatile with different fittings to accomidate a variety of stands

Really high-quality. The porcelain fittings may be overkill if you are using LED or CFL.

Bang for the buck. Heavy, well made, tight fittings, and cheaper than some of the others. No complaints.

Track log allows other non GPS capable cameras to use common track log

Simply put, once you go track, you never go back!!

Easy to keep track off

It is really cool what these things can do and track