Awesome device... though the manual for the Jib with Stand? Not so accurate and could use better pictures not so close so you can see the whole piece being assembled.
Each section is marked by a handwritten number on label that you can't read; it appears to have been written by someone foreign who couldn't legibly write English numbers... I had to remove them with a dry erase marker and rewrite them with a permanent marker so I could read them.
The manual has you attaching Section 4 to the Central Post... but then you notice the Connecting Bars they show in the manual on Section 4 are not there... They ship assembled on Section 5... which means you have to disassemble Section 4 and Central Post... then remove the connecting bars from Section 5 and put on Section 4, then reassemble Section 4 to the Central Post.... Also, the holes for the bolt that goes through the Central Post have zero play to allow easy assembly... I had to widen the holes slightly by redrilling for easier assembly as the bolt didn't exactly fit.
The manual doesn't warn you to not completely tighten any bolt that is tied to the upper arm assembly... If you do, the camera will not be able to stay level as you go up and down with the lock pin in place (which you'll always have the pin in most likely). The unit also came with an extra black rolling pin part with nuts... not sure what to do with that... looks like it could go on the 4th Section's Upright bar to perhaps keep your wires off the jib body... but you'd have to add/remove every time in order to fold the bar down for packing.
The manual also shows attaching the LCD mounting arm to a "Central Fork"? not "Post"...; the pics in the manual clearly shows the arm being attached to a totally different Central assembly, not the one you bought... And, attaching the mounting arm to the Central Post that you do have.. is a bit awkward due to the design of the Post and where the holes are located.
The Sr. Pan Tilt Head.... Love it... though it was odd they have the 15 meter cable as the primary cable and the 3 meter cable as an extra extension for the 18' setup... Being that you'll use the 12' mostly, I'd rather of had the 3 meter cable as the primary instead of dealing with 15 meters of cable every shoot (rolling it back up is a pain if it gets twisted).
Also, when attaching the Pan Tilt Head to the Jib, you can only attach 3 bolts with a wing nut... the wing nut for the bolt closest to the large nut on the vertical upright will not fit under that nut in order for you to spin the wing nut on... I had to use a regular nut on that bolt.
All in all, this setup is awesome to use and the results of the shot are well worth these little hiccups during assembly. Also, If you have a crew helping setup I'd advise you to put a mark (with tape) next to all the bolts/holes to be removed for assembly and disassembly so they don't disassemble the entire unit... That would be a nightmare to reassemble.
