Video Tutorials
The Mantis Pod Is the Swiss Army Knife of Camera Support (And Why I'm Obsessed With It)
I have a bad habit of overcomplicating my kit. I’ll spend forty minutes setting up a C-stand for a shot that needed a tripod for thirty seconds, then wonder why I’m still at the coffee shop at midnight. What I actually need more often than not is something small, fast, and clever enough to handle whatever weird surface or angle I’m working around. That’s the gap this tutorial fills. In this Peter McKinnon video, he walks through the PGyTech Mantis Pod, a compact tripod that he calls his favorite new piece of kit.
