A tripod is an essential accessory for anyone who cares about their photography. It's the only thing that can totally eliminate camera shake, even on very long exposures, and as I've noted before the action of setting up a camera and tripod has the effect of forcing you to think about your shot...

I love taking night or long exposure photos; however, keeping your camera still is always the issue. There are tips and tricks to hand-hold and steady your camera, but often with long exposures, they're still not good enough.

-Small; light; and portable; -Integrated ballhead; -Wraps and grips around a whole range of objects; -Easily creates a stable; level platform both horizontally and vertically

-Pan without tilt a little bit awkward; -Unknown how the joints and rubber will perform long term

was actually quite surprised how much movement there is with the spirit level in my Gorillapod ballhead, am a little concerned this may have an effect on my images,....

Easy to use

Build quality

My son is ordering one after I showed him mine. I think that I should have purchased the one with the longer legs. I am very happy with this produce. I attached a small camera to the GorillaPod and then attach the GorillaPod to my bow.

The Joby GorillaPod Focus is a great way to get your camera, or audio recorder in those tight, or hard to reach places. Supporting 5KG, you can get your full size DSLR and lens down low to the ground, or places just not accessible with a conventional tripod.

Great for use with typical-size webcams. The clip-on bit is great if you have a webcam on your monitor most of the time but occasionally put it somewhere else.

Extremely flexible Very grippy; but not unreasonably so Very strong once in place Lightweight

A little tough to make fine adjustments sometimes Could have longer legs

Sturdy, good for my j4000 cam and point and shoot camera.

, but it gets the job done. Mainly use this for a GoPro and couldn't be more happy with the results. Wish the little pieces would stay together a bit more firm but this thing is so handy that it doesn't even matter

"After roughly 6 months of light use, one leg has broken off."

I have a Sony a6000 mirrorless camera and I wasn't sure if I should go with the Hybrid or the DSLR GorillaPod. Glad I chose the Hybrid. It's a good size (I've read some people complain that it's smaller than they expected but it's fine if you think of it as a flexible tabletop tripod).