Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a video review of the joby gorillapod a pod is a flexible that has very firm joints that you can wrap around anything so like a tree or even a rock or something like that the reason that it could be better than a traditional tripod is because one it's smaller so you can fit this in a bag if you're going camping too you can put it up in a tree or hang it from the ceiling it's really versatile so let me give you an idea of what it's comprised of here it's comprised of these arms that have these very bendable and stiff joints that can kind of be placed in any direction or in any configuration that you want towards the top there is a standard holder for a camera so I'm going to take my old canon powershot here and just kind of twist it on and of course it keeps it very secure and we're going to go outside and actually wrap this around a tree and give you an idea of how this may work now Joe B is coming out with a gorillapod for mobile devices so that means that you can kind of find a place in your car that may be a pillar where the shifter is and wrap one of these around the pillar and have your device held in a position that's perfect for you so I'm looking forward to that it's not out yet so let's take a look at how this works in another environment alright and we're outside now sorry about the background noise if you hear some children in the background so here i have the gorillapod wrapped around a tree and it's very secure and you can move this along the branch or even put it on a smaller branch probably not one of these because it's too flimsy but it's very versatile is very sturdy and certainly from here you can you can tilt the end of the camera because there are joints towards the base of the camera tube hey and what if you want to take a picture from a low perspective here i have had got the joby gorillapod attached to a spigot which is just a about a foot off the ground that may make for an interesting kind of shot and again it's pretty pretty secure you know you can use all of the arms to wrap around the spicket or whatever it takes to keep it secure and of course if you have the need to hang your camera upside down for some reason you can certainly do that here we have it hanging from a bet banister and it's perfectly secure by now you probably have a good idea if this is a product for you if you go camping or hiking and you you want to take a picture from the perspective of a tree you don't have a tripod on you you want to take a picture with your family or whoever you're camping with this may be a good idea you could probably get pretty creative in the applications of using this but for me I'm traditional I like to have a tripod a standard old-fashioned tripod to take videos and pictures with and so this product comes in three flavors and many different colors the first one which you're looking at is the original this costs about 2495 the gorillapod SLR which is a little bit beefier to handle the weight of an SLR camera is 4495 and then the gorillapod srl SLR zoom which is made for SLR cameras with big zoom lenses again adding to the weight it costs 5495 a good tripod can be had for about thirty or forty dollars so you are paying a bit especially on the SLR models for the novelty of having the flexible arms and that sort of thing and something else you may find interesting is you can actually pull hard enough you can detach these joints and so if you want to lengthen one leg in particular you could do that so I don't think this is intended by the company but you know let's get creative right so if you want to lengthen one leg for some reason and kind of have this short leg over here you can do that now something that concerns me is the longevity of these legs I actually had another gorilla pod that I was sent and I was playing with it and after a while some joints actually broke after bending it back and forth back and forth a lot of times now that may above be above and beyond what the average person may inflict on their gorilla pod but it's something to consider I'm not sure how long this would last so like I said by now you probably know if this is a product that would be useful to you if you go camping if you're if you're out in the wild a lot you don't have the space to carry a full fledged tripod then this could be a good addition to your arsenal though for me a traditional person that takes most of my pictures indoors and my videos indoors in this kind of situation a standard tripod does me just fine but I i like the innovation that joe b has brought forth here this is unique product and it does what it says it does that's it for now