Self Levelling Tripod – wtf?

BENRO recently announced on Kickstarter that they were developing a ‘self levelling tripod’ – couple of questions here…

1: Why KICKSTARTER? This platform is famous for leaving ‘investors’ in the lurch when their total lack of concern about the viability of some of the projects proposed extends to not giving people their money back when the project is found to be a total scam. TO BE AVOIDED

2: Why self levelling? Most, if not all, decent tripods have a bubble level and regardless of how the legs are positioned, at least the platform for the camera can me made level in seconds.

No it seems in the day of the Internet, we need to cram even the most mundane objects full of batteries and circuitry to make it simple for the bottom feeders, and perpetual forum posters (who buy this sort of rubbish) to actually just use it. Naturally a significant amount of these people probably don’ even own a camera anyway…but they will swear to God Almighty that it’s the best tripod since sliced bread, to justify their purchase…

Frankly it’s cheaper, and easier, to buy a few more hooks for the garage ceiling…

I find it interesting to note that the Kickstarter campaign was started aiming for $50,000 of funding and that at close, the float was $2,452,958 – my God there’s a lot of gullible people out there…