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Modopocket by Manfrotto
It belongs in your ManPocket.
By Dusty Overby
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Name: Dusty Overby
Email: doverby@gearpatrol.com
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About: Gents… my name is Dusty. To date, I have been resident amongst the masses of Gear Patrol devotees. Now, I have received a different calling. My charge is to shrug off the casual and carefree life of one who solely reads; I am to eschew the selfish pleasures man-info consumption, and to, instead, contribute mighty works of journalistic prowess suitable for the enlightenment of the Gear Patrol audience.
I’m sure that we would all agree that Gear Patrol shines as a bright beacon in the world of Men’s Lifestyle and Leisure. With numerous other sites and magazines vying for your attention, you read Gear Patrol because it cuts through the worthless flotsam and jetsam the other sites and blogs rehash day in and day out, bringing you a unique perspective on the latest gizmos and whatnots that matter to you. Well, it just so happens that I majored in gizmos and minored in whatnots.
Hopefully, my background and experiences will allow me to deliver piping-hot and tasty content direct to you from my areas of expertise. I was schooled in the beautiful Southeastern U.S. of A. There I spent only a modicum of time in actual class; instead wisely opting to hone other skills such as video game dominance (Ed: Dusty’s GoldenEye skills were unparalleled - full stop), media and entertainment studies, and indulging my competitive nature.
Post graduation, I sojourned for three years in southern Germany. There, I garnered a great appreciation for European culture as well as their longstanding brewing traditions/skills. Needless to say, travel is up there on my list of personal passions. Now I am back in the States where, by day, I work in sales and marketing in the construction industry. Also, I’m an on-again, off-again runner who enjoys many outdoor activities, preeminent among them being a fanatical, though rarely fantastical, golfer.
That being said, you may have to indulge some of my written idiosyncrasies. If my posts get too wacky, surely someone will let me know (Eric?). I plan to bring a bit of wit and wisdom to a community that clearly already has them in spades. Fellow readers, I shall do you proud by helping advance Gear Patrol in advancing you. After all, it’s a good bet that at least some of what entertains me just might entertain you too.
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve held up pending group shots whilst searching for a stable surface on which to perch my camera. Enter a simple, elegant solution to my problem created by Manfrotto (Italian makers of professional photography staging equipment, not denizens of Middle Earth). It’s called the Modopocket and, quite simply, it’s brilliant.
Easily carried in your pocket, I find it just as well to leave it attached to my camera full-time. It is completely unobtrusive. Offering a good range of vertical tilt as well as the ability to level uneven surfaces, the Modopocket is at ease supporting my well-worn P200 (in action above); it’s no less troubled in service to my Nikon DSLR (shown below), considering that the Modopocket doesn’t impair the use of a traditional tripod by way of it’s own mounting port. So, unless you are perfectly content spending all of your time behind the camera (and who doesn’t like to be in pictures), the Modopocket is an essential companion to your camera.
Cost: $30 @ Amazon
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