Joby Gorillapod

Joby Gorillapod

Written by Ken Saturday, 05 July 2008 14:45

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Joby GorillaPod flexible tripod

Price paid £12.57 including delivery from CameraKing via Amazon

You’ve climbed the mountain, or found the one quiet spot on the beach, and you want a group photo - unfortunately, there’s nowhere secure to balance the camera, so you end up missing from the picture. This is the sort of situation the Joby GorillaPod is meant for – it’s a tripod, but with a difference, since its flexible legs can be wrapped around branches, or jammed into crevices, to allow you to take a picture literally anywhere.


 

The GorillaPod legs wrap around pretty much anything
The GorillaPod legs wrap around pretty much anything
The GorillaPod has been around for a few years now, and the original compact-camera version has spawned heavier versions for bigger cameras and SLRs. The basic design is the same – three legs made up of a number of articulated ball-joints that can be bent into the shape of a normal tripod, or wrapped around objects to grip them securely.

I’ve had my eye on one for travelling with, not only for my camera but possibly also for mounting a WiFi antenna on for war-driving! I’ll only be looking at the GorillaPod for cameras this time around though.

 


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