I'd be more worried if I need to mount it on such heavy body and long lens
like that (which is what they advertise on the name of it).
I guess it also depends on the center of mass, besides the advertise weight
( 3000g ), to avoid putting too much load on a joint.
In standing position, Ultrapod, should be the better choice because there's
no joint involves. The true strength of the Gorilla will come out on the
wrapping position.
Without the _ neck vertebrae _, it should mostly depend on the strength of
legs wrapping objects and the strength of head attached to the tripod.
Anyway, I only plan to mount it with E330 and 14-42 which is about 1/3 of
its weight spec.
> All in all, a great idea that's only ok in practice, not great. I was
> disturbed by the leg joint creep I experienced yesterday. I had it
> sitting on my desk with 5D and 28-300 VC on it while I wrote about it.
> The legs were all bent somewhat in various ways. I caught some slow
> motion out of the corner of my eye. The leg nearest the edge was slowly
> sliding toward the edge. I caught it before it went over - which would
> NOT have made me happy.
>
> At first, I thought it was the whole thing a little off balance, which
> would be my fault, and the friction of the rubber on the end of the leg
> slipping. Further investigation revealed that a leg joint was slowly
> moving where one leg had a slightly sharp negative bend in it.
>
>
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