- Flexible tripod designed for digital cameras weighing up to 9.7 ounces (275 grams)
- Fits into your purse, backpack, or jacket pocket
- Innovative segmented leg design to ensure secure mounting
- Standard universal 1/4-20 screw for attaching your camera to the tripod mount
- Lets everyone get into self-timer shots
Product Description
The Joby Gorillapod firmly secures your camera to just about anything – anywhere and everywhere! Unlike traditional tripods, Gorillapods do not require a level or elevated surface for you to take the perfect shot.Each Gorillapod is made up of 30 or more fully articulating ball-and-socket joints. You can bend and twist them into any shape, and they’ll always keep your camera steady!Soft rings and rubberized feet prevent your Gorillapod from slipping in even the tough… More >>
Joby GP1-EBEN Gorillapod Flexible Tripod
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HOW BIG IS YOUR CAMERA? This is a great product, but if you buy one that’s too weak to hold your camera’s weight, you’re going to be disappointed. The GP1 will hold up to 9.7 oz- basically your average small point-and-click digital camera only- think Elph. The GP2 will hold up to 1.75 lbs -smaller/lighter SLR cameras with short lenses only. The GP3 will hold up to 6.6 lbs and has a slightly larger camera attach point, similar to larger tripods -good for SLRs and smaller camcorders. Unless you want to spend 10-15 minutes fighting the gorilla to hold your camera without sagging (and forget about portrait/sideways shots), make sure you buy one that can support the weight! Otherwise it’s tough to beat the versatility, reliability, and small size/weight of this tripod. From what I’ve seen of other reviews, you’ll be disappointed with cheaper imitations as well.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic product. We bought this while looking for one of those mini tripods that you can velcro to another object and found this to be much better. The grip is strong and most situations can be accommodated. It’s a little pricey, but well made so very much worth the cost. Older, heavier cameras may tend to overwhelm it in some positions, but for the most part, it works great. If nothing else, it replicates a “traditional” tripod well, and the added bending and gripping feature really makes the difference. I no longer have to balance the camera on the hood of the car with sticks and rocks to get a good photo of us during our travels. Everywhere we go, somebody stops us to ask where to get one… it’s quite a spectacle.
I ordered an extra shoe so we can transfer the gorillapod from her camera to mine. If you’re in the market for a new camera, try and get one with the tripod mounting shoe somewhat centrally located on the bottom of the camera. My fiance’s camera has the tripod mount on one side so the camera wants to lean to the other side. Fortunately, the gorillapod is strong enough to resist this.
Rating: 5 / 5
I still can’t believe that this thing is real! And I’m blown away by the quality of the tripod.
The ‘legs’ are stiff enought that it doesn’t fall out of shape as it holds the camera. Each little grey ring around the ball-like pieces are rubberized to help it grip onto objects. I have been able to mount my Canon SD600 and hold one ‘foot’ of the tripod while it remains in the shape I bent it into. The leg didn’t change shape or sag at all.
I’ve had it on top of my LCD, hung it from a doorway, sitting on top of a lamp… I think the legs are long enough and the feet are ‘grippy’ enough to mount it to the side of a bowling ball!
The clip on top lets you mount and dismount the camera quite easily and without hassle. The only problem I could see is that with the mounting clip attached to the camera I can’t put the camera in the fitted Canon carrying case that I have for the SD600. Well, it fits with it on, but very snug.
I can’t stress how much I love this little tripod!! Get one; you won’t be disappointed!
Rating: 5 / 5
As long as you don’t expect the world of the Gorillapod, it won’t disappoint. I’ve had a slew of small tripods for years (to match my succession of digital cameras; I’m tough to please). My Ultrapod II is good, sturdy and stable, but often not as versatile as this. I’ll still keep that one around, though, especially after I got the quick-release head for it. For me, a quick-release shoe is a very big plus. My full-size tripods have always had this feature, but I’ve never been able to find it on the minis until the Gorillapod. It’s extremely useful. No more struggling with screwing the tripod in when you need to take that quick picture, desperately trying to keep from cross-threading and stripping the plastic mounting threads common on today’s cameras. The Gorillapod snaps onto the camera in about three seconds. This won’t hold my camera as still as my 4-pound tripods, but it’s a heck of a lot lighter and easier to carry with me all the time. While Joby lists the maximum weight capacity as 12 ounces, my camera still works fine despite being a couple of ounces over that. If there’s one thing I don’t really like, it’s that it does take a bit of fiddling to straighten out the legs after use. But if you’re not obsessively neat, you probably won’t mind some slightly crooked legs. If you really want a bit more stability, see the Gorillapod SLR. A quarter pound heavier and twice the price, but when you need it, sometimes you need to bite the bullet. Or get the Ultrapod II if having superflexible legs isn’t of paramount importance. That’s a couple of ounces heavier still compared with the Gorillapod SLR, but its rigid construction and Velcro strap make it more secure in iffy conditions.
Rating: 4 / 5
It seems that Amazon has lumped reviews of all 3 sizes of Gorillapods together, so keep that im mind as you read these reviews. I’m looking for reviews on the largest Gorillapod, the SLR-Zoom, and many of the reviews for “it” state that it is too small and flexible and will only hold a small point and shoot camera- these are clearly reviews of the original (small version) Gorillapod and not the SLR-Zoom.
Rating: 5 / 5