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By Patrick Cone - July 24th, 2016

The Pakpod is a small, yet highly versatile, tripod for your camera/Patrick Cone

Headed into some wild places and need a tripod for your sports camera, or 4k video? This lightweight tripod has been thoughtfully designed to go just about anywhere, and hold your camera in any position. Retracted, it’s only 12.75 inches long, but nearly 18 inches when extended.

Now, I wouldn’t want to put my heavy old Nikon D4S on this, but my GoPro Hero4 worked perfectly, even when hanging upside down from a cottonwood tree in the desert. One twist of the top knob frees all three legs to adjust, then locks them again with one action. And, choose from the spoon or spike foot, with a quick rotation. (I especially liked the spike foot!)

Inventor Steve Underwood designed the Pakpod out of necessity, looking for something that was quick-to-deploy, and versatile, and this seems to do the job. You can pick one up, and check it out for around $100. 

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