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If you never heard of Joby before, you probably aren’t an avid photographer of content creator. But surprisingly, the company made tripods and other camera gear many years before social media popularized the term “selfie.” Joby is most famous for their GorillaPod flexible tripod products and with more folks gravitating towards streaming and vlogging, Joby has every incentive to leverage their popular designs and make some more dedicated vlogging gear. The 17-year-old company did just that by announcing the Joby Spin and Joby Swing products as well as a GorillaPod Mobile Vlogging Kit for budding streamers.
Recently Joby sent me a few of their newer vlogging gadgets to test out and review during my contact creation process. I'll try each one of them out and let you know what I think. Let's get things started with one of the basic items; the Joby GorillaPod Mobile Vlogging Kit.
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Joby GorillaPod Mobile Vlogging Kit
If you only have a smartphone and you want to take that first step into serious vlogging, the Joby GorillaPod Mobile Vlogging Kit serves as a simple and quick way to uplift your video production values in various aspects.
What You Get
This Joby vlogging kit bundles the Joby GorillaPod Mobile tripod with adjustable smartphone mount, the Joby Beamo Mini LED light and Joby Wavo Mobile on-camera microphone. There’s also a handful of accessories and components including additional arms to hold more gear, microphone connectors, a diffuser for the light and a windsock for the mic.
The GorillaPod Mobile Vlogging Kit is a kit geared towards classic iPhone owners as it includes a certified 3.5mm to Lightning cable allowing you to connect the included microphone to an iPhone. That adapter costs around $10 to $13 on its own and you won’t need it if you have an older iPhone model that came bundled with it. But if you are penny pinching and have an Android phone or any of the new iPhone 15 models you might want to consider another kit or buying separately. GorillaPod Mobile Rig
Let’s get a closer look at Joby’s popular GorillaPod 1K tripod stand which has flexible legs to customize how you can use it and what you can attach it to. It uses a combination of ABS plastic and stainless steel so it can handle cameras weighing 1 kg or less. The tripod itself is lightweight too at 0.145 kg and you can compress the legs and hold it like a monopod for vlogging, or even wrap the legs around almost anything to get your shot just where you want it.
Also bundled with the rig is the Joby GripTight PRO 2 mount which isn’t Joby’s latest model, but the phone clamp mount feels durable and can rotate 90-degrees to allow both portrait and landscape orientations. You can screw in a cold shoe mount on top in case you wish to add the bundled microphone and it has a dedicated socket on each side for adding the included GorillaPod arms.
The GorillaPod arms have the same flexibility as the tripod’s legs. With the included GoPro mount and cold shoe adapters, you can securely attach lightweight accessories to an arm such as included Joby Beamo Mini or even GoPro’s latest HERO 12.
My experience with GorillaPod & Mount
I've owned one of Joby’s GorillaPod devices for almost a decade; my original smaller format GorillaPod finally gave up the ghost a few years ago and I upgraded to a more heavy duty version. I'm a huge fan of these GorillaPod tripods as they give you a stable surface plus a ton of flexibility for shooting anywhere. The flexible legs can wrap around, hook onto or brace against almost anything so it’s a very versatile little tripod for solo vlogging, b-roll and more.
While this particular GorillaPod is too lightweight for my preferences, it’s just fine for a beginner. The smart phone mount is OK. It gives you decent options for range of motion, but the flat panel mount with screw can be a little fiddly. I also find the way the mount is connected to the tripod doesn't give you as much range of motion as some thing with a ball head does, by comparison. A game. This tripod will be just fine for beginners, but pros may wish for a little more fine-tuning. Where this mount does excel is with the small threaded holes where you can clip in the added arms, since these will allow you to toss any additional accessories onto your rig easily.
