Gear Patrol

Lino Manfrotto was an Italian photojournalist in the late ’60s who hated lugging cumbersome lights and poles on location and at his studio. From desperation comes inspiration, as they say, and today Manfrotto is known in the industry as producing some of the toughest and lightest photo and film gear essentials. Equipment matters, and Manfrotto…

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,…