Depends on your application and needs. What that expensive carbon fiber tripod will buy you is a weight savings of about 10 pounds and a more compact folded size (important if you ever intend to fly with your large format camera gear).
That said, these older cine tripods seem to be well made, plentiful and affordable. They are the old school equivalent to a Ries. In fact, Ries was a contemporary and competitor to these older wooden cine tripods.
FWIW, the film industry largely switched to carbon fiber tripods about a decade before they began marketing the advantages of carbon fiber to us still photographers.
Kerry
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