set your Tascam (or Zoom) to stun!

[Flicker Pictures]

I'm calling it a GripPod

After scouring the web for a hand grip for my Tascam audio recorder, this one looked too cool not to buy. Flips out into a tripod with adjustable tilt, then collapses into a grip, turning your recorder into a phaser!

on Amazon for under $15 or so.

 

[rayw]

Great idea!

$1 variant: http://www.dollartree.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=306665

 

[Flicker Pictures]

Yep, suppose so! For the po' indie mogul on shoestringedtogether budget!

 

[JoshL]

Perfect for documenting all your Prime Directive Violations!

 

[knightly]

The $1 is the one I keep in my camera bag all the time… works like a champ.

 

[Lucky Hardwood]

Then there is the $100.00 option.
http://www.promaster.com/products.asp?product=7812

This thing works great and will affix to anything that the jaws will fit around.

 

[rayw]

Then there is the $100.00 option...

Incredible.

 

[Lucky Hardwood]

Incredible.

Sticker shock?

 

[Uranium City]

The Zoom and the Tascam sort of look like Tasers anyway, so a pistol grip is only appropriate.

 

[rayw]

Sticker shock?

Yeah.


A fool and his money...

 

[Lucky Hardwood]

Yeah.


A fool and his money...

When you want to perch a fairly hefty piece of equipment that cost more than a decent used car from something slick and round, $100.00 doesn't seem like such a bad investment.

 

[Alcove Audio]

.

 

[ItDonnedOnMe]

I think my h4n actually came with a screw in grip like that. Mini tripod's more useful though, I used to have one from REI that had a velcro strap too so you could mount it to poles, etc easily.

 

[rayw]

When you want to perch a fairly hefty piece of equipment that cost more than a decent used car from something slick and round, $100.00 doesn't seem like such a bad investment.

True.
I just don't see that scenario happening enough to justify $100, lovely as the product is.

Seems like there'd be more economical options.

 

[Lucky Hardwood]

True.
I just don't see that scenario happening enough to justify $100, lovely as the product is.

Seems like there'd be more economical options.

I use mine fairly regularly to secure cameras to things that aren't meant to have cameras mounted to them and aren't smooth or flat enough for a suction mount to be used.

 

[rayw]

I stand corrected.

See, having someone such as yourself with active practical experience is worlds apart better than my "ain't there yet" supposition.

 

[Lucky Hardwood]

For me, it worth the money for the peace of mind that my gear won't come loose from whatever I hook it to. Because I have it, I am always finding other things to do with it. For instance, I use it to clamp a second (B) camera to my mobile tripod so that I can get two perspectives from each take.