December 4th - The Gorillapod

The Joby Gorillapod is a great piece of kit when you want to travel light but still get those sharp low ISO shots for long exposures. Unfortunately good quality tripods  tend to be heavy, and even expensive lightweight carbon fibre tripods are somewhat unwieldy to carry about, especially if you're travelling light. The Joby Gorillapod is a strange-looking but amazingly effective flexible tripod which can support your camera in virtually any position by clinging to available objects such as lamp posts, tree branches, railings and so on. It can also stand on its own legs like a conventional tripod but be aware when doing this it wont give you the same stable platform as a conventional tripod especially in high winds.


You can get different sizes to suit the type of camera you are using from a compact camera up to a Digital SLR with zoom lens. The picture below is a shot I took in Las Vegas with a Gorillapod and a Panasonic G1 compact system camera. This shot would have been very difficult to get sharp if I hadn't had the Gorillapod with me!