Comments on: Fstoppers Reviews the Delkin Fat Gecko

By: Richard Sole

Richard Sole — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:39:00 +0000

The Mounting thread is fixed meaning that you: 1) either have to remove the ball from the clamp and it only comes out at the end of the wing nut’s thread so you sit with a couple of bits in your hand/in the sand, or,
2) you have to rotate your camera about 5 or 6 times to seat it on the nut.A rubber washer is supplied – fell off / falls off every time you remove the camera! WTF!
The first joint is serrated but in such a way that you cannot turn the dog-leg to point the other way. It has a serrated washer that can be removed (why?) but it cannot be swapped to the other side 0 if it was fitted with the same square as the bolt was, it would have been interchangeable.I tried sticking a Garmin disk to my dash but it is not big enough for the suction cup – the rest of the dash is textured so no way of sucking it to the dash.My window is at such an angle that with the camera mounted any which way with this unit on the glass, half the photo is taken up by the base! Pics available.
Definitively not a very clever design office at Delkin!

By: iPhone_4Steve

iPhone_4Steve — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:39:00 +0000

way way way too shaky

By: Philipp Blum

Philipp Blum — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:30:00 +0000

If you want to shoot on full-frame, Canon both has a 24 and 28mm 2.8 IS prime and Nikon has a 16-35 4.0 VR if I’m not mistaken. Depending on what you call “wide angle” and why you need the prime.

As Jaron said, you can also use the 24-70 from Tamron with VC, the Canon 24-104 with IS, the Nikon 24-120 with VR, or, on a crop the Tamron 17-50 VC (and the list goes on).You could also use a Sony, Pentax or Olympus SLR with all have stabilisation in-body, or a mirrorless camera (I know for sure that most Olympus models also have IS in-body).

By: Nismode

Nismode — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:33:00 +0000

I think he is talking about rig shots, as in attaching a pole to it.

By: Jaron Schneider

Jaron Schneider — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Hm. Maybe if you described what you were trying to do a bit better I could answer this. I’m not sure what you mean.

By: JimmySchaefer

JimmySchaefer — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Question: Does anyone know if you can add things like Clamps to this for Automotive poll shoots?

By: Jared Phillips

Jared Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Looks that is the GoPro Suction Cup Mount x 2

By: Jaron Schneider

Jaron Schneider — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:38:00 +0000

Technically the Tamron 24-70mm f/28 VC is a wide angle lens and the VC on it is a monster.

By: Andreas Martin

Andreas Martin — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Only downside is that whenever you use it in combination with a car etc. and your car drives over rough surface the movies look not so professional. At least with iMovie I wasnt able to stabilize it. Apart from that: There are very few wide angles with VR / IS out there. In face not a single wide angle prime. Or is there?

By: Fighting Amish

Fighting Amish — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:46:00 +0000

I’m a TV news photog and have one of these for my Drift Innovations POV camera. I love it. When he said the suction cups stick well that would be an understatement, I have mounted this to so many things and it had never budged… even on the wind screen of a motorcycle that hit speeds well over 100 mph. Best $70 I ever spent.