You’ve got an idea for a shot with your GoPro camera. But you don’t have the right mount, or the tripod you carry won’t go low enough or fit in a space with that great angle.
Photographer Ruogo Zhou has designed a hunk of plastic that cradles the GoPro and provides it 20 different angles for shooting. It’s a small polyhedron support that can fit in tiny spaces and it goes by the name SLOPES.
It may not replace your tripod, but depending on what and where you’re shooting, you may be able to live the sticks in the closet.
Zhou is trying to raise money on Indiegogo to bring the simple but brilliant SLOPES to production. Early backers can get one for $15. The SLOPES fits the GoPro Hero 3, 3+ and 4.
The growing action camera market was invented by GoPro when it introduced its first high-definition point-of-view camera in 2009. It has since sold 11 million cameras and, last year, held 42 percent of the market share in the second quarter of 2014.
GoPro and various third-party manufacturers make accessories for the GoPro, from underwater housings to bike helmet mounts, and inventors are coming up with new accessories that utilize the small size of the camera.
Photo: SLOPES
The polyhedron bottom of the SLOPES support is shaped at different angles and the slot cradling the GoPro securely holds it in three positions, horizontal (landscape), vertical (portrait) or facing the camera lens upward. There are seven different pitches for the camera in landscape position and eight pitches in portrait. The horizon of a shot can also be tilted or rolled on either side.
