Gorillapod in the mist! (Joby Gorillapod)

Member Name: puddingmancan

Product:	Joby Gorillapod
Date:	11/11/09 (83 review reads)
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Advantages: Small, easy to use

Disadvantages: None

Like many other people there are 2 situations that really annoy me when I'm taking photos.

The first is when you want a photo of yourself or you and a friend / partner, and there's no one else there to take the photo. How do we usually get round this? Either hold the camera at arms length, usually ending up with half a face and no scenery or balance the camera somewhere on timer and hope for the best!!

The second is that of night time (scenery) photos. I like to think that I have quite a steady hand, but if my night time photography is anything to go by, I shake like I've gone cold turkey!!! Forever am I left with bleary streaks of light and there never seems to be anything to balance the camera on at the time or it is not flat enough if there is!

So with these annoyances in mind I decided to buy a mini tripod to finally add another string to my photographic bow. After looking at a few normal ridged tripods I came across the Gorillapod and decided it was the one for me.

The Gorillapod (compact) is relatively small ( 15 x 3 x 3cm) with 3 flexible tripod legs. These legs feature over two dozen flexible leg joints that bend and rotate, because of this design it makes the legs exceptionally good at gripping on to....well pretty much anything!

Once receiving my Gorillapod I was amazed at quite how many places I could wrap it to in order to get a photo, using things such as door handles, tree branches and railings. That is on top of just being able to use it as a normal tripod.

The size of the Gorillapod means that is easy to carry around, I just stick mine in an over the shoulder bag that all my other stuff lives in when I take my camera out. This means I can now happily take group photos and actually be part of the group and my night photos are now coming along brilliantly.

Summary: Damn you to hell bleary photo