The Indie Travel Podcast

This week Craig and Linda at the Indie Travel Podcast turn their attention to the Joby Gorillapod; an innovative camera tripod.

The gorillapod differs from normal tripods by having legs made out of interconnected spheres which can be manipulated to wrap around all sorts of things: tree branches, backs of chairs and even swimming pool rungs. Not fish though.

They discuss the pros and cons of the gorillapod before offering their advice on who it would best suit and whether to add it to your pack.

Thanks to listeners Mark and Kelli for suggesting the review and Joby for supplying one for review.

Links:
Transcript (pdf, 281kb)
Joby website (including store)
Gorillapods on amazon.com
Gorillapod love - a flickr group
Photo courtesy of Dive-angel. Thanks!

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 14th, 2007 and is a Equipment, Podcast, Reviews post. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Joby GP1-01EN Gorillapod Flexible Tripod (Grey)

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3 Responses to “042 - Joby Gorillapod review”

1. Gary Says:
   December 14th, 2007 at 6:53 pm

   I considered one of these, but I wasn’t sure they could hold the weight of an SLR. Also, because I do HDR images, if it wobbled just a bit, it would screw it up.

   That being said, I think they are very good for simple point and click digital cameras.

2. Craig and Linda Says:
   December 15th, 2007 at 4:52 pm

   We agree. Point and click seems to be their strong point; We’ve heard mixed reviews on SLR models but haven’t used one ourselves.

3. jeff Says:
   December 18th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

   I have used these before and they are great, really easy to use and very convinient whilst traveling

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