That one pictured there is a cheap Sunpak, the best one they had at a local Circuit City store. We were up filming in northern Indiana, and my good tripod leg broke, so I ran over and picked this up to have something to use. [:@] I've got my new good one now, it is a Bogen Manfrotto 190XB with the Bogen 700RC2 fluid head. Very lightweight setup from what I had before (broken tripod). Before I had a Bogen Manfrotto tripod, I can't remember what model it was, 3000 something or other?, and I had the Bogen 501 fluid head with it. I junked the tripod as it was done for, but kept the fluid head to use as needed for when using the XL2 camera. Also the remote lanc I use is the Bogen 521 remote lanc.