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Joby Gorillapod from Joby
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Our Editorial Review
Product Description Clever and robust, the flexible tripod Gorillapod from Joby will transform your digital camera in a true ruggedize tool.Indeed, way more flexible than those classical, rigid tripods, the Gorillapod does not need a plane surface to take perfect pictures. The flexible feet can be deformed to adapt any obstacle or even to enroll or hold any support on a small surface.The Gorillapod can adapt any situation and will thus be the perfect companion for your digital camera!Universal interface: 1/4-20.
Customer Reviews
Haven't Used It Much Posted 24 March 2008
I bought the Gorillapod SLR Zoom about 3 months ago, but I haven't used it much since. I have a Canon EOS400D and it will hold this with a small 50mm lens, but looks and feels a bit unstable with my preferred 70-300mm lens. Whilst I haven't had any problems with it toppling, I don't feel that I want to trust it too much.
Another issue is that if it is attached directly to the camera, it can be very fiddly to square everything up nicely with the scene. For that reason you may find you need a head in-between the Gorillapod and the camera - I've used mine with a Manfrotto 484RC2 which works well and is very easy to get the camera level. An unwanted side effect though is that the extra couple of inches height do alter the centre of gravity making it all a little less stable.
Overall, I'd say that if you want something that will work on a table top, car bonnet or similar stable surface, the Gorilla pod will be absolutly fine. If you want to wrap it around trees and fence posts I'd only really trust it with a small camera/lens.
One of the best tripods you can buy for under £100 Posted 24 March 2008
So I bought this Gorillapod along with a Cannon IXUS 70 digital camera and it's a perfect combination.
I recently went on a trip to Palermo, Sicily and without this Gorillapod, I wouldn't have got a single good picture. When vising churches and places with low light conditions you need a tripod to deal with the long exposure times (to avoid grain and the unforgivable use of the flash) but carrying a conventional tripod would have been allot of trouble with setup times for on the fly photography.
With this Gorillapod there wear no problems with setup times as all you need to find is something to either sit in on or rap around (most of the time a pew would do) There is enough articulation where the camera attach so that even with rapping the Gorillapod around a pole you can get level shots very easily. The Gorillapod is small enough so then it will fit in a coat pocket without trouble.
Obviously with this design you can't expect the legs to extend like on a ordinary tripod, the result being that you get allot of shots from a mouse's perspective when you can't find anything to sit/rap the Gorillapod on/around, but this problem only happens 1 percent of the time, the rest of the time this works perfectly .
Buy this Gorillapod!!! even if you think you will only use it once (trust me, you will find something to do with the thing) it's less than £15 for goodness sake!!! -.-
BUY IT!!!
P.S. The SLR/zoom versions can do more and really I should have bought either one of them, and so should you!!!
okay...but definately for amateur and light use. Posted 01 February 2008
I thought that this was the SLR version, therefore it should support an SLR and a lens, no? Well try a 20D with a 24-105 lens...err no, it just falls down collapses. It's construction is pretty poor and lightweight and the lock is purely to lock the camera screw clip to the base of the 'pod, not to lock the mechanism to prevent it moving. You will also get annoyed as your fingers and skin tend to get pinched in between the grippy balls (if you'll excuse the expression ;) I thought that this was the biggest version, but I see I made the wrong purchase and should have got the 'Zoom' version...never mind. I would suspect that the small one with something like a canon Ixus would be brilliant, but as a serious addition to a serious photographers kit bag...forget it. Get a proper small tripod, some magic arms and some clamps!
Great for digital camcorders Posted 22 January 2008
Having purchased this for my fathers birthday, he couldn't be more pleased. I'ts early days yet but it works great. We decided to go for the SLR version so that he could use it with his digital camcorder we got him for christmas, and it handles the extra weight no problem. Time will tell if holds its strength (as noted by other reviews) but for the moment this quite ingenious, compact device gets the thumbs up.
PERFECT Posted 07 January 2008
This is a must have for any photographer, with every type of camera catered for with various models.
I bought the compact digital version after i needed a tripod for 'non flash photos'. It fits in many awkward places, great grip and sturdy. At first i was worried if it would skrew into my camera but it did, and its got a quick release mechanism which means you just slot it on and off.
Only snag is its very tricky taking portrait pictures when the camera needs to be turned round.
I'd recommend it to anyone and its a great price!
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