Review: Peak Design Spike Feet For Tripod – Do They Cut It?

Peak Design started off making camera straps, then graduated to camera bags and finally on to camera support gear. Their first foray into the tripod world was the wildly successful Peak Design Travel Tripod, and alongside that, they launched several tripod accessories that can be used with the Travel Tripod and any additional future tripods that they might make. In this quick review, I wanted to show you the Peak Design Spike Feet Set, and talk about when it might be a good idea to use this accessory. The Spike Feet Set comes as a set of three for $30. …

Read more

Peak Design Travel Tripod Available for Pre-Order

The new Peak Design Travel Tripod raised over $12million on Kickstarter, but if you missed out on the campaign I have some good news for you. The tripod is now available for pre-order and is expected to ship by the end of the year. Of course Kickstarter orders will be fulfilled first, but after that, regular pre-orders will be fulfilled in order of when they were placed. I actually have a pre-production version of the tripod in my hands right now and I’ll be doing a full review very soon. Initial impressions are very good! In fact as this post …

Read more

The 12 Million Dollar Tripod – Great Deals End Tomorrow

The Kickstarter campaign for the Peak Design Travel Tripod has just two days left. If you want to secure this record-breaking tripod at a large discount over the eventual retail price, you must act now! Incredibly, at the time of writing this post the campaign has raised just shy of 12 million dollars, and it will easily surpass that mark by the end of the campaign. 10 million dollars! People are REALLY excited about the design of this new tripod!! >> Don’t miss your chance. Carbon Travel Tripod – $479 (retail $599) Aluminum Travel Tripod – $289 (retail $349)

Peak Design Launches Innovative New Travel Tipod

Peak Design has launched a new travel tripod on Kickstarter. Based on their past successes with the crowdfunding platform, it should come as no surprise that they blew past the $2 million funding mark in a single day. They are smashing their $500,000 goal with 57 days still to go. UPDATE: Launched and reviewed. “During my travels in 2008 I began wondering why on Earth my tripod was so big. The thing was full of negative space and knobs, and I felt like something designed for portability could do much better,” Peak Design CEO, Peter Dering. During the campaign the …

Read more