good part of tri pod is they always work..... bad part especialy in brushless gimbals is now you have additional mass and three little sails fighting an already tempermental tool. when you use it for hand work it's nice to be able to set it down. downside, it makes a really big impact on traveling, esp without quick release. to travel with a completed tripod gimbal takes a really big expensive pelican
good part of retracts aside from really cool, when your into brushless gimbals there is almost no wind affects on the gimbal, your yaw pans run alot smoother from not being an overweight gimbal, sails again. when a rig with retracts travels it takes very little room. the gimbal fits a really small cheap pelican. it also breaks down in seconds with 2 quick release buckles. your able to really drag the camera through vegetation if your into that kinda thing, keeps legs out of actors eyeballs..... bad part is it adds another electrical component that can fail. needs an external bec to be done right, requires an additional channel on the rx/tx and the possibility of not working. if your not careful around a rig with unactivated retracts and the rig is touched wrong or on the wrong ground they can retract on there own and fall on the gimbal. you gotta adapt to a program that works.
