I'd say that this is well worth the money. the only draw-back is that it cannot rotate the camera in a circle at all. This is very much a 1-shot camera. It CAN tilt up and down and can even flip the camera on its side 90 degrees and hold it there.I do have an issue with mine ,as well where the part that connects to the camera has a wing nut that will not move like it should to make for easy connection to the camera. Pretty annoying. Not sure if all models are like this or just mine. Am looking into it.