The FlexTILT Head 2 gives your camera knees so you don’t have to bend yours

You don’t have to stand on one leg or bend over backwards to get that perfectly composed shot. If you’ve got a tripod and the FlexTILT Head 2, your camera can do the bending for you! Edelkrone’s FlexTILT Head 2 is a small intermediate connector that sits between your camera and your tripod, giving your camera the stability of three legs, and the flexibility of two knees.

It’s a simple idea with powerful applications, really. The FlexTILT Head 2 comes with a CNC machined aluminum body and friction hinges that allow you to position your camera in multiple ways. You can lift the camera up, set it down, face it at any angle without messing with your tripod’s settings, or even face it downwards. The FlexTILT Head 2 supports a load of up to 5 kilograms, allowing you to work even with those big, heavy lenses. The friction hinges only work when you operate them (much like a laptop’s screen), and there’s even a spirit level as well as an angle-adjuster so you can tilt and even rotate the camera with relative ease. Moreover, the FlexTILT Head 2 even lets you swap your camera’s batteries without needing you to unscrew it off the tripod.

The FlexTILT Head 2 sort of opens a wide variety of possibilities. It can be used independently, as a makeshift stand, on a tripod, or even with dolly-sliders too, and is compatible with practically every camera that uses the traditional threaded mounting system.

Designer: Edelkrone

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Edelkrone StandPLUS Reinvents the Tripod

Using a tripod can mean getting the perfect picture, but the problem is getting it set up in time to take that shot. Somebody finally built a better tripod. The tripod of the future coming soon, and it eliminates knobs, buttons, and those awkward extending legs. All of this means that it can be easily positioned in seconds.

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The StandPLUS camera stand from Edelkrone has a unique folding design that collapses down to just 20 inches long, but it can be raised to a height of around five feet. It has a compact footprint and unique flexibility. It also has unique pivoting hinges that can hold their position without having to loosen or tighten any knobs. To really understand how cool the StandPLUS really is, just check out the video below:

The stand supports a DSLR with a decent sized lens, though we are guessing that the amount of weight it can support depends on the angle you want to use it at. It’s going to be hard to use on uneven terrain, but is probably awesome for studio work.

It is a quantum leap for tripods, no doubt. You have to love that design. I just love how quickly it sets up.

[via Fstoppers via Gizmodo]

Daily reminders you’ll love

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The Oqloq may look like an uber-minimal timepiece but the designers want you to know that it’s not! For instance, the face may have a hand on it, but you don’t read it as you would a normal clock. The dial completes one full rotation every 24 hours. Which means when the Hand faces downwards, it’s actually noon! The outer rim of the clock also can be customized in a way that allows you to plan out your day by color-coding that particular time segment. That drastically reduces your chances of going “Oh shit! I’m late for my appointment!” by gamifying the process of reading time. Plus, I absolutely adore the name Oqloq!

Designer: Edelkrone

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