Comments on: Product Review: Gorillapod

By: marko

marko — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:21:13 +0000

Can you shoot pictures in portrait mode with G9 on it? Is it when used that way?

[Brian - Marko, you wouldn't be able to shoot them in a traditional way. The G9 doesn't have a tripod mount on its side, which inhibits this. You could attach the gorillapod to a vertical object, which would set the whole camera to be in portrait mode, though.]

By: Professional Snapshots » Blog Archive » A Fun Feature on the Canon G9 - Time Lapse Video

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:32:46 +0000

[...] I put the G9 on my trusty GorillaPod (more about it, here). [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:20:40 +0000

Interesting point, Sony Alpha. All the cameras I have use a centered point – as a result, I was unable to test for the situation. I could see how that might cause it to be a little more unstable. I’d be curious to see if that also adversely affected how it worked when the legs were wrapped around an object (like a car’s side mirror or a tree branch).

-Brian

By: Sony Alpha

Sony Alpha — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:15:28 +0000

Doesn’t work simply because the screw in spot is not centered, and therefore the camera tips over. If my camera had a centered screw in spot this product would be nice to have.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:12:26 +0000

Great question. It actually does pretty well with a camera and flash (as long as both are fairly light and you don’t have a big lens attached). It also works when a flash is attached to my G9 – although the G9 starts looking a bit funny with a flash attached that is as large or larger than the camera itself.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:24:29 +0000

My brother got one of these for his P&S camera – was showing it off to me – while it looked kinda cool I wasn’t sure if it would support the weight of an SLR. I guess it does though – have you tried it supporting both camera and flash?