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When I was looking at getting this smartphone adapter I was also thinking of some sort of
pistol grip for it as well, so off onto Amazon and ended up with this which on the U.K. Amazon
site is branded as a Polaroid pistol grip come desktop stand, though on Amazon.com it's
under the Vivitar name. Anyway this is designed as a cheap pistol grip which in its compact
form fairly small will fit in to a bag but this part then just [click] [click] [click]
opens out so you can mount a camera, maybe a microphone, an LED light brick on this,
and like this you can be holding it in this sort of style. [clicks] With that out at 90
degrees like that you've got this sort of grip configuration, and in turn the grip opens
out like this and if I, wrong one, bring that back to there then we have a small desktop
tripod situation. The legs are not expandable at all so it's very much a you've got what
you've got and if you want this at a different angle you'll need to use some paper or a book
or something to change that. You do have a bit of flexibility of angle so perhaps if
you had a microphone you might want it up a bit. However, if I was Polaroid, as a company
had at one time a really good reputation for new technology cameras and their instant picture
devices but have gone through a bad time, the idea of trying to recover myself by putting
[clicks] my name to something as cheap and as basically *** as this, well, that's been
Polaroid's choice. This did cost me under a tenner and the quality is reflected in that.
It is a really badly made device, it does a job but I would [clicks] certainly not be
risking anything more than say a compact camera onto here, or the lightest of the bridge cross-over
cameras. I would certainly not be risking a digital SLR err expensive type device on
this. The whole thing is real cheap feel to it. This ratchet mechanism is absolutely oops
wrong button or wrong way appalling [clicks]. No instruction with it or anything. It does
a job though, and I suspect this in reality will end up as a [clicks] desktop stand for
a microphone for me. So there we go, the Polaroid pistol grip mini desktop tripod, though also
branded as Vivitar. Well, it does a job, it was cheap. Goodbye.