Brand YunTeng 4-Section Retractable Handheld Monopod

Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 4.06.42 PMThis is a pretty convenient and lightweight camera monopod. It is intended for someone who primarily takes casual snapshots, but who wold still appreciate a certain amount of stability for their camera. The included spring-loaded bracket also makes this a very natural monopod to use with your smartphone.

I’ve taken this monopod with me on a couple of hikes. It was indeed easy to carry it around as it is mad out of plastic and it’s very lightweight. In particular, if you put it in your backpack you would not even notice that it’s there. I used it with my iPhone 4S to take a few nature shots. They came through much nicer and more focused than what I am usually used to. The use of this monopod for shooting in the HDR or panorama modes is especially useful. Usually those kinds of photographs end up being very blurry for me, but with this monopod they were almost as good as the ones I take in the “regular” shooting mode.

The monopod seems pretty nice and fairly durable. However, it is not exactly a high end product and you can easily notice that. It is very utilitarian both in terms of its function and its look. If you just need a monopod that gets the things done, then you will not go wrong with this model. Especially since it is very competitively priced.

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Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts

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