QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever - Gizmodo Comments

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Mandatory_Field — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:10:06 EST

Hey, I KNOW! What if you balanced the end of it on a TRIPOD!!! Then you would hardly get any shake at ALL!

Mandatory_Field

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Worf — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:22:21 EST

Great, how does this reduce camera shake? A heavy object on the end of a long lever arm... sounds like a great recipe for blur caused by camera shake...

Worf

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

iomatic — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:04:06 EST

You can pay me only $40 and I can point you to the self-timer.

Aw, crap.

iomatic

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

GLaiV3 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:37:27 EST

Ok, do they have any idea how fuckin heavy this will be? I have issues holding my 30d steady with my arm extended outward. Good idea, but it'll fail in practice. This will only work for cheap dslrs like the digital rebel xti that are small, anything higher than that has those heavy magnesium bodies.

GLaiV3

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

bikerglen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:53:41 EST

@JESSEDYBKA:

These two "tank" lenses are excellent for portraits at three to four feet:
Nikon 17-55mm f2.8 weighs 26.6oz.
Nikon 105mm f2.8 VR weighs 27.9oz.

bikerglen

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Munch the BanNail — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:39:20 EST

Do they make a longer version for use with zoom lenses?

Munch the BanNail

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

GC736 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:57:57 EST

Is it just me, or does that dude look like he's waaaay too much into his sister?

GC736

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

CaliforniaKid — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:11:29 EST

Hey, baby. I've got something that'll grow to 18" in your hand.

CaliforniaKid

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

CaliforniaKid — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:10:15 EST

Her, "Is that a Quikpod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me.

Him, "No. It's a Quikpod."

CaliforniaKid

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

ctthoqqua — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:48:50 EST

That dude is the evil Kurgan. He's three seconds from using that QuickPod to lop off her head.

ctthoqqua

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

someToast — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:32:03 EST

Jeff Goldblum likes the hippie chicks.

someToast

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

jessedybka — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:15:53 EST

@brian1cj:
@winkie:

If you're using a "tank of a lens" you're not really going to get a person in the shot from 3 or 4 feet away. A wide angle or small zoom weighs what, 500 or 600 grams?

jessedybka

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

electrikecho — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:12:07 EST

Damn! If I knew about this, I would have never bothered to get this cumbersome Manfrotto 190XP tripod that keeps my Canon 5D rock steady for any portrait shot, when I could have just spent $50 for a stick with a cheap-assed joint on the end.

Assuming that they don't use remote shutters, and that most jackasses leave the timer to 10s, the majority of the portrait shots will be either a blurred shot of one of them rolling their eyes as the other has a bitch-grimace face because his plastic dSLR is so damn heavy when he holds it out 2 feet away, or a blurred shot of the camera falling to its demise.

Sorry, tripod wins. Portraits look best when you're not bitter over a broken camera.

electrikecho

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

devGOD — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:36:31 EST

whats going to stop your hand from shaking. that's a lot of weight to hold out like that. try holding a monopod with one hand in the air.

devGOD

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

AndersonBMX — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:51:15 EST

waste of good 50

AndersonBMX

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

kahri — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:29:36 EST

Sweet, I can finally get that 'blue flame' shot i always wanted.

kahri

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

SomeoneUKno — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:57:29 EST

Great -- Just what I need! A stick to carry around so I can take pictures of myself! I'm sorry, but has everyone forgotten the good ol' timer function that comes on just about every DSLR out there? Or use a remote, as above mentioned. Honestly, the only thing I would use the stick for would be to beat off people who tried to steal my DSLR. Now, if you can make it sturdy enough for that and compact, then we might have a deal here.

SomeoneUKno

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

lordargent — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:50:01 EST

WINKIE : rofl... now try to hold that heavy dSLR with tank of a lens on a stick steady enough to achieve in focus shots.

It's not really a question of focus (focus is all about how light converges in the optical system), it's a question of blurring caused by motion.

IE, you could stick a camera on a tripod and still take out of focus shots (you'd probably have to switch to manual focus though). Point is, technically focus doesn't have anything to do with the motion of the camera.

lordargent

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

songs — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:32:16 EST

@Windhawk:

Most DSLRs can be shot remotely through wired or wireless RF or infrared triggers.

Photographers have been doing this for years, its basically a painters stick with a tripod head on it.

songs

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

xxenclavexx — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:29:44 EST

"Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever!" just like this totally fake one you see here!

xxenclavexx

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

chillarmadillo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:08:02 EST

This was in one of those "unuseless things" books a while ago.

"* Self-portrait camera stick - a 57-cm telescoping pole which allows young and apparently shy couples to take pictures of themselves without having to bother passing strangers. The only sacrifice is the constant appearance of the pole in every shot. "

i like still like the butter stick better
[www.angelfire.com]

chillarmadillo

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

PlasmaMachine — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:58:39 EST

@sxs3200:

True dat.. I'd rather stick with a cheap tripod.. you can always level the shot, it seems safer (for the camera) and you'd get a better shot out of it as well.. Though I've never tried a monopod before.

PlasmaMachine

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Windhawk — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:55:26 EST

This will be a much better product when you can also make it trigger the shutter to take a photo. Right now it is limited because you have to set a timer and grin like idiots till the camera snaps your picture. Needs some way to tell the camera: NOW...!

Windhawk

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

GOKOR — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:48:48 EST

I could create my own Survivor Man episode using a cradle using something like this...or I could just get a tripod, sit in the woods, and cry until daytime like he does.

GOKOR

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

sxs3200 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:32:21 EST

I have a hard enough time keeping my 5lb Nikon D200 setup stable when it's handheld... this is JUST what I need to extend that weight out 53" from my body.

I guess it would be a great accessory to help with my drop-test review...

sxs3200

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

banmojo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:31:39 EST

she's hot, he's not, this product is an English cigarette idea.

banmojo

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

J.T. — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:30:47 EST

@hakubak: Brilliant.

Also, why is this so painfully Photoshopped together? They couldn't afford to actually go to nature to shoot the damn thing for their press images?

J.T.

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

hakubak — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:29:19 EST

This has to be at least the third time this thing has been on Gizmodo. I know, because every time it does, I suggest the same product name for it - the Narcissistick. 'Cause it's all about you, baby.

hakubak

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

redman042 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:16:01 EST

What's riskier - using this pole to hold your SLR, or handing it to someone you don't know to take the pic?

redman042

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Tommasta — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:12:32 EST

So... it's a monopod. Great, they invented the monopod. Again. Someone stop the presses, or something. You know what, don't bother - I'm tired. Keep them bad boys running - I'll be in the storage closet on the cot.

Tommasta

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

SchruteBuck — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:09:46 EST

So what took the picture I'm looking at? Does he have another quick pod in his left hand? That couple makes me mad.

SchruteBuck

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

DaveP — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:07:28 EST

As a photographer AND a backpacker, I can see the value of its less expensive predecessor, as I usually bring a lightweight point & shoot or a super zoom camera when I'm operating in backpacker mode. If I do bring my DSLR into the backcountry, it's usually not with the intent of taking self portraits.

The $25 point & shoot model - kinda cool, actually useful, and fairly lightweight & compact to bring along.

The DSLR $50 model - pricier, heavier, I'd leave it behind.

DaveP

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Mandatory_Field — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:42:55 EST

Is that a smile? Or a grimace from the shoulder strain?

Mandatory_Field

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

slingblade — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:40:19 EST

You can hold an SLR on a stick? That's heavy dude...

slingblade

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

jibbly — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:38:30 EST

This is useful because you know, tripods haven't been invented or anything.

jibbly

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

brian1cj — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:35:27 EST

I'd love to see someone dare to try to hold it out with one arm on a pro-slr and $2000 lens that weighs 5 pounds. And like winkie said, keep is steady as well. Who is this product aimed for? Even light intro SLRs and DSLRs have a considerable amount of weight to them. This product does not make much sense.

brian1cj

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Pablos102030 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:25:52 EST

Look at how much she is straining to even keep that thing up! This is only for people too lazy to ask someone to take their picture.

Pablos102030

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

ANoel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:24:35 EST

Jenkies!
Those people have been SHOT with an Ugly Stick.
U G H L E E !

ANoel

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

alin0steglinski — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:22:22 EST

alin0steglinski

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

winkie — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:19:56 EST

rofl... now try to hold that heavy dSLR with tank of a lens on a stick steady enough to achieve in focus shots. Just use a tripod and remote release.

winkie

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

ara — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:18:08 EST

I'm waiting for the first complaints when someone drops his few thousand dollar camera because of that pole.

ara

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Palestina — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:16:12 EST

@Yifkong: yeah, really underdone photoshop work there, disgusting.

Palestina

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

qwiggles — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:10:19 EST

Well, at least SLR's don't have as much of a suck problem with blurriness, because imagining someone use this with a teeny digital point and shoot, you'd never be able to get a clear photo.

qwiggles

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

jlaabs — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:08:35 EST

Seriously fifty dollars? I'm sure I could pay a passerby only $5 bucks and get some better pictures. Not to mention having to lug a fishing pole on my back all day for one shot.

jlaabs

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

Yifkong — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:08:14 EST

For all those green screen chroma key portrait taking opportunities.

Yifkong

QuikPod for DSLRs Announced: Take the Best Self-Portraits Ever

ratagoonsplat — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:08:11 EST

I hope that the photos that you take with your new QuickPod turn out better than the one above.

ratagoonsplat