Product Description

The Gorillapod Focus was built for the professional photographer. It can support an amazing 11 pounds, providing the stability of a standard tripod at a fraction of the size and weight. Sturdy machined aluminum sockets with an anodized gunmetal finish offer incredible flexibility while ensuring a rock-solid hold in almost any environment.Cleverly designed to help capture hard to get images like time-lapse, available-light, night-time or long-exposure, the Gorillapod Focus helps photographers refine their imaging skills. It is the biggest, strongest Gorillapod yet!Sturdy machined aluminum sockets, featuring an anodized gunmetal finish, allow flexibility over 360? of rotation while maintaining their stability and ensuring longevity. Rubberized ring and foot grips provide extra gripping power to grapple wherever you want to go.

Product Details

• Brand: Joby
• Model: GP8 Focus
• Dimensions: 11.25" h x 3.58" w x 3.58" l, 1.10 pounds

Features

• Sturdier aluminum-reinforced sockets support professional equipment and help you get a steady shot in virtually any environment.
• Flexible joints bend and rotate 360° to form the perfect shape. High-quality, injection-molded plastic ensures snug joints that stay firm.
• Rubberized ring & foot grips provide extra gripping power to grapple wherever you want to go.
• Bigger and better means you can shoot with heavier cameras, lenses and video camcorders up to 11 pounds.
• Adapter screw allows you to mount both the standard 1/4-inch cameras and other 3/8-inch professional cameras, tripod heads and video cameras.

Manufacturer's Description
The strongest, largest Gorillapod yet, the Gorillapod Focus is designed with the professional photographer in mind. Its machined aluminum sockets offer incredible flexibility while ensuring a rock-solid hold in almost any environment. Best of all, it supports a whopping 11 pounds! Like Joby’s entire lineup of Gorillapod tripods, the Focus is cleverly designed to help you capture the perfect time-lapse, available-light, night-time or long-exposure image. Wrap it around a railing, hang it from a tree, or stand it on a table in the studio; the Gorillapod Focus provides the stability of a professional tripod at a fraction of the size, weight and price. Wherever your journey may take you, we believe the Gorillapod Focus will quickly become your favorite new travel companion.

Gorillapod Focus Highlights

• Sturdier aluminum-reinforced sockets support professional equipment and help you get a steady shot in virtually any environment.
• Flexible joints bend and rotate 360 degrees to form the perfect shape. High-quality, injection-molded plastic ensures snug joints that stay firm after lots of action.
• Rubberized ring & foot grips provide extra gripping power to grapple wherever you want to go
• Bigger and better means you can shoot with heavier cameras, lenses and video camcorders up to 11lbs.
• Light weight and compact size means it can go anywhere and everywhere
• Adapter screw allows you to mount both the standard 1/4-inch cameras and other 3/8-inch professional cameras, tripod heads and video cameras.

Customer Reviews

Awesome tripod for SLR cameras
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2003A56BA7LHM The gorillapod foucs is a great tripod for slr owner's with large zoom lens. I use a Nikon D80 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera (Body only) and have a Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens attached to it. Even with the lens fully extended the camera doesn't shake or drop down. The tripod is also very light weight which makes it ideal for travel.
The only CON of the product is that the legs are a bit stiff and makes it a bit hard to wrap the legs around an structure. If you can live with that this is the best travel tripod for slr users

Finally, a Gorillapod that will hold up my camera - usually
Gorillapods are great, but you need one thats one-model stiffer than what Joby says. For example, get this one if you have a D300, and dont expect it to hold it up very well with a 600mm/2.8 lens on it. But it will hold it up with medium size lenses. My previous one, one model down, was not strong enough for me to be comfortable putting a D300 on with anything heavier than the 18-200 mounted. Just be careful - its easy to dump your camera with this thing if you're not.

Great Minipod, but mounting could be Improved
Pod works great, good for propping against rocks and trees,very stiff stays in place well . However screw mount needs much improvement . A very good pod to take along on hikes and had to get to areas like rocks and uneven terrains .