Peak Design’s new portable pro tripods can support up to 40 pounds of camera gear

Peak Design’s caller tripods are designed for larger camera cogwheel but inactive fold down tiny capable to acceptable successful a backpack. | Image: Peak Design

Peak Design has announced 3 caller tripods with features and functionality that cater to nonrecreational photographers and videographers. The company’s archetypal tripod was a question model that folded to beryllium arsenic slim arsenic a soda tin to prioritize portability. Its caller pro tripods, disposable successful 3 versions, are somewhat thicker erstwhile collapsed, but they tin besides enactment doubly arsenic overmuch value and basal a spot taller.

The institution is erstwhile again launching the caller tripods done a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign today. The caller pro versions scope successful terms from $799.95 to $999.95 — a large leap from the starting terms of its archetypal Travel Tripod astatine $349.95. However, the earliest backers tin preorder them with discounts up to 27 percent off.

The 3 caller models see the modular Pro Tripod and 2 variants. The Pro Lite Tripod is lighter and packs down smaller, acknowledgment to its legs and halfway file being scaled down. The Pro Tall Tripod features elongated legs truthful it stands taller, but it besides maximizes stableness since the halfway file whitethorn not request to beryllium extended arsenic high.

Ranging successful value from 3.7 to 4.5 pounds, the caller pro models are lone somewhat heavier than Peak Design’s aluminum Travel Tripod, which weighs 3.44 pounds. But they each basal overmuch taller, up to 77.7 inches for the Pro Tall Tripod, and tin enactment up to 40 pounds of camera equipment, though the smaller Pro Lite Tripod maxes retired astatine 35 pounds.

Despite their thicker and sturdier legs made of c fiber, you tin inactive compression the caller pro tripods into a backpack’s broadside pouch due to the fact that the largest exemplary measures conscionable 3.66 inches successful diameter erstwhile folded down. (Peak Design’s Travel Tripod was 3.25 inches, for comparison.) But they whitethorn instrumentality retired a spot much since they’re 4 to 7 inches taller.

Peak Design is carrying guardant immoderate of the much unsocial features of its Travel Tripod, including a smartphone equine and a hex multitool that some fold down truthful they tin beryllium stowed wrong the tripod’s halfway column. They’ll besides person amended Arca-compatible quick-lock grips that clasp a camera much securely portion making it easier to connect and remove. And you tin get an optional $149.95 Tilt Mod accessory that converts the pro tripods’ easy adjustable shot caput into a fluid cookware and tilt caput for smoother camera movements.