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Mounting to poles

Mounting to poles

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Mounting to poles

- Now, when we're dealing with a round object Rob, what's our challenge here? - Making sure it's secure. I mean a traditional tripod is not gonna work with three feet on the ground when you need to wrap around something that is cylindrical. - Yeah, so we need to get good surface grip. And a clamp works great when you've got a flat surface to grab onto. But here, round objects. So, we're gonna show you two different ways to pull this off. Rob, you have sort of a flexible mini tripod there. Show 'em what it does. - Yeah, so this from Arkon. And you might have seen this type of, style of tripod before. And basically the deal is that these tripod legs are bendable. And this one is really nice and stiff, so you're gonna get really secure fit. And all you need to do on something like this Rich, is just take these legs, wrap them around, just like so, and now you have a really secure fit around a cylindrical object. This particular head we have up here is for a phone, but you could swap it…

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