Excellent tripod head for my D90 - Great Price!

Great Manfrotto engineering. Holds a full body and long lens without creeping. Tried using the ball heads and joystick options... All were good, but the 3-way pan gave me the most versatility and accuracy for Macro shots. Very happy with it.

I really love this head. The controls are smooth and precise and the counter weighting make controlling my camera/lens combos a breeze. The only word of advice I would give is make sure your sticks are as stable as this head. It's heavy and with really accentuate any weakness in your tripod legs. It locks down rock solid so if your sticks aren't solid you'll know it.

The Manfrotto head is preatty much the best you can buy for your money. I recently graduated from college, and we had Manfrotto heads with Calument legs, and those tripods literally got beaten up student after student and they never failed, and now, it hasn't failed me. Great product!

feels stable and strong I use it with canon 5d mark II mainly

I use this head for landscape and wildlife. It is very stable and able to be tilted easily to fit any footing situation.

I use this aluminum 808RC4 to be the base for my Toyo-Field 45AII - a 4x5 camera which weighs in at around six pounds, but when a newer style (bulkier) Symmar or similar lens is added, plus lens shade/compendium, filter, BTZS dark cloth and film holder, the dead weight is closer to ten pounds or more. I was using a very good 'famous name' ball head (which is great for my MF cameras), but I quickly tired of the lack of control when aligning the camera - the 'floppyness' of a large format camera sitting on a ball, always about to suddenly dip forward alarmingly. I was always wishing for three hands ! The Manfrotto 808RC4 is such a pleasure to use, especially with the super safe RC4 quick release plate. The 3-way head (with dual axis built in levels) can quickly and accurately bring your camera into perfect alignment. The three large rubberized adjustment handles are perfectly placed and excellent to use, and when the camera position is locked, it is locked. Not a millimeter of movement as you tighten the handles, or when you remove your hold of the body. All of this, plus two balance springs in the vertical tilt (forward/backward) and horizontal tilt (left/right) movements (which you can turn on or off) to make the alignment of the camera even easier. I like products that are well designed and well engineered. I especially like products which I can 'forget' about when I use them. I want to concentrate on my creative work, not my tools. The Manfrotto 808RC4 is such a tool, and I am delighted with it. If you need to support a weighty camera, with ease and with absolute peace of mind, the 808RC4 should be your go-to tripod head.

I prefer pan-tilts over ball heads. This one holds a 5D Mark II with a 28-300mm lens, a fairly heavy combination. I've not yet had it on field trips, but indoors it has performed at or above expectations. I'm sometime quite low to the ground so I could use a little more than a 30-degree tilt. A little imagination with the tripod corrects this.