hey guys harmeet here welcome back to my channel today I want to talk to you
about peak design and why I'm backing their latest Kickstarter on Kickstarter
this is the new travel tripod and it's a revolutionary change to the way the
tripods are made now I've had tripods many different tripods actually three
tripods in my photography life so far my current tripod is this little Benro
tripod it's a carbon fiber tripod and I'm had this probably for five six maybe
longer actually but anyway if you look at the form factor of this tripod let me
put it here this is when it's completely closed
you know the head is this big you have the three knobs and the center column
the tripod legs and this is the carbon fiber model now when you need to travel
and pack it with you I guess one configuration is this sometimes when
I travel and I check this in into my check luggage I want to basically reduce
the length of this and the only way to do that is basically like so and then
hold this center column up and now it's a much smaller form factor but the
problem with that is then you end up wasting so much space around the legs
there's and you look at the footprint it's pretty weak now there are other
smaller travel tripods but you know they are smaller but the basic design is the
same now what these guys have done is is quite amazing I was super impressed to
see their first release video and some reviews online and I'm told so I'm
definitely back in their Kickstarter for this tripod I'm probably gonna go get
the carbon fiber because that's the one I've had
I know aluminium is just as strong it's not gonna rust but I like the feel of
the carbon fiber the form factor of the peak design tripod is really really
compact I mean it's you know very tight they don't really waste any space they
utilize the space and what's amazing is the ball head design I mean they've
taken this traditional ball head style which you see on most tripods and
they've kind of reinvented it and now it basically so snug and compact that it
fits into the tripod itself doesn't really stick out as much as all the
traditional tripods and you know the way to get started
clicking it in the tripod plate it's very quick and fast and there's only one
knob or one dial essentially at the base of the head which allows you to do all
the different different rotations off the camera so you got the right
placement whereas here you're working on three different dials one is obviously
the rotational dial the basis rotational the head rotation and obviously a finer
adjustment in terms of strength and so forth so they've basically taken all
that out and there's one dial now so really impressed with their design
apparently took them four years of development to come up with this design
so really shows you the commitment of the company and how much time and energy
they're putting in and the great product they're coming up with so if you haven't
checked out their tripod go head over to the Kickstarter page I'll put a link up
in the video check it out but it's now time for me to jump online
and place the order for my tripod so I'm gonna back this Kickstarter and I hope
to show you the tripod when I receive it thanks guys see you soon don't forget to
subscribe i'll be back here with more videos bye
bye
for decades tripods have been mostly negative space wouldn't it be great if
you could fit a full-featured tripod into half that volume we sure thought so
you