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Buy the $399.95 aluminum Travel Tripod if it has to fold into 15.5 by 3.25 inches and still hold a full-frame camera at 60 inches. In a car or studio, the fold buys nothing.
A 170-gram, single-height tabletop tripod with a push-button ball head and a 1 kg payload rating, made in Italy and sold only through retailers, where B&H lists it at $29.95. Rigid legs are the feature and the limit.
A $35.99 pocket tripod that carries the same 1 kg rating as Joby's GorillaPod 1K Gen 2 at a third of the weight, trading flexible legs for a telescoping pole, a cold shoe and a hidden hook that hangs the camera off a fence.
A $45.99 flexible tripod, marked down from $49.99, rated by Joby to hold 1 kg on a ball head that takes a camera and a magnetic phone together. Whether it fits your kit comes down to a kitchen scale.
