| Joby Gorillapod - SLR | 
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| Brand: Joby
Category: CE
Buy New: £19.50
New (15) Used (1) from £19.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 86
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Maximum Weight Recommendation (lbs): 1.8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 2 x 2
MPN: GP2-01P
Model: GP2-01P
UPC: 854630001025
EAN: 0854630001025
ASIN: B000HAVVFG
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Get the right one.... May 10, 2008
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
Recently purchased one of these little gizmos for my dad. It does exactly what it sets out to do. There really isn't anything I can add that other reviewers have already said... except this advice.
Make sure you purchase the right one. Eh? Well let me explain. This Gorillapod is designed for lightweight compact cameras, like the Canon Ixus - the clue is in the pictures for the device above. For those complaining that it will not take the weight of a Canon Digital SLR, I'm not surprised. Basic reading comprehension does help a lot, since there is a Gorillapod SLR version as well... the clue is in the name.
So lets recap
Small Digital Camera - get the Gorillapod
Large Digital SLR Camera with interchangeable lens - get the Gorillapod SLR
Simple really
 Junk April 19, 2008
1 out of 20 found this review helpful
I just bought a Gorillapod SLR Zoom and it is a complete waste of money. They are only suitable for a compact camera. A proper camera clamp or bean bag would be better than this!
 Haven't Used It Much March 24, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
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 March 24, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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. February 1, 2008
11 out of 25 found this review helpful
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!
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