Its stronger, faster, and smarter than ever. Theta frees you to focus on your photography.
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We are Benro! For 30 years, we have been manufacturing and designing tripods. We have never ceased developing and designing photographic equipment that improves a photographer’s efficiency. From the most basic camera tripod, to products such as the Polaris Smart Tripod Head and Theta Smart Tripod – Benro’s innovation through technology has been unabated. Thank you for your continued support of our products.
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As technology advances, we’re constantly moving toward a future where devices can do more with less. The Benro Theta is no exception to this rule. Theta is a highly innovative product that combines portability, stability, efficiency and intelligence. Theta offers the same stability a regular tripod does, but with many extras to assist photographers in taking the perfect shot with ease. From rapid leg deployment and automatic leveling, to remote camera control, automatic exposure adjustment, and livestreaming – Theta is designed to elevate your photographic journey.
With Theta’s level function, you can turn the ball head into a platform that is always level. Instead of having to take care of whether the framing is horizontal during the shoot – it is horizontal at all times. So you can stay focused on your composition.
In fact, we initially wanted to design an electric tripod head with built-in leveling that would be travel-friendly. However, the torque of an electronic tripod head is quite high, and making it smaller would give up its stability. With lots of testing, we redesigned Theta’s legs and ball head to make it a truly portable, self-leveling tripod. All without compromising stability and practicality.
Auto-leveling helps us save time by eliminating the need to manually adjust the legs. However, what we ultimately need is to get the camera level on the ball head. Can Theta continually keep the camera level while we adjust the ball head for composition?
With this in mind, the Theta ball head was designed with a locking system that allows the ball head to be aligned with the tripod at all times. This means that the ball head can be switched between free mode and roll lock mode. While in roll lock position, when the tripod is level with the ground, so is the camera.
Step 1
– Twist the knob to lock movement on the roll axis.
– Move the ballhead untill you hear a “click”.
– When locked – the roll axis is fixed and will always be aligned horizontally with the tripod.
Step 2
All three of Theta’s legs can be leveled automatically. When auto-leveling is activated, Theta determines how many legs need to be adjusted simultaneously to reach level as quickly as possible, based on its current leveling status.
– Mount the battery module (add-ons).
– Press the button and the leg between the first and second section will automatically adjust its length.
– The tripod is leveled with the ground.
When automatic leveling begins, Theta will detect the current leveling status to determine how many legs and lengths need to be adjusted to reach the fastest leveling status.
Theta’s ball head can quickly switch between full range of free motion and pan & tilt motion. If you tighten the retractable knob on the side of the ball head, the ball head can then only move in the pan and tilt direction, while the roll axis is locked and always remains level with the tripod. In this mode – you can adjust the composition and framing more accurately, while not affecting the original tuned horizontal state.
For photographers, the most important factors when selecting a tripod are size and weight. Most travel tripods on the market compromise on size in order to be lightweight and sturdy. Or perhaps they compromise on sturdiness in order to be light and compact. That’s not the kind of innovation we’re looking for.
Theta is a travel tripod that takes all three of these factors into account. We used structural optimization of the central shaft in order to have zero wasted space while maintaining a round tube design. With the unique center column design and by thickening Theta’s upper leg diameter to 29mm – the stability and capacity of Theta’s legs was greatly increased.
A circular or round leg design distributes force points evenly along the tripod’s legs and achieves better stability. We designed the center column of Theta to be trigonous. Trigonous means the contour of a round tube is divided into three equal concave parts – forming three inner arcs.
