Poles, grips and mounts

Poles, grips and the parts that decide the shot

Where the camera sits matters more than almost anything else in the frame. Our poles and mounts are the hardware that decides it — telescopic poles, floating hand grips, tripod handles and the mounts that join them to a camera.

Locking collars

The collar is the part that fails first on a cheap pole: it slips wet, then it slips dry, then the pole is a stick. Ours are metal and they bite on a wet hand, which is the only test that matters on a boat.

Floating grips

A grip that floats is a grip you can drop in open water and still own afterwards. Closed-cell foam, bright enough to spot on a grey surface, with a wrist tether anchored through the body rather than glued to it.

Reach, balance and the tripod base

A long pole is only useful if the far end holds still. We build these in sections that taper, so the stiffness stays where the camera is, and the folding tripod base turns the same pole into a table stand for a timelapse.

Packing one

Folded, these fit the channel cut into our larger camera cases. That is deliberate — the pole and the case were drawn to travel together.

Questions about this shelf

How many patterns are on this shelf?

10 at the moment, in several sizes. The count moves as we draw new patterns and retire old moulds — we do not keep a listing alive once the mould is gone.

How do I narrow it down to my machine?

Use the row of makes above the grid. Each one filters the shelf to cases that were measured against that make, which is faster than reading titles and more reliable than matching a diagonal.

Are two cases with the same size the same case?

Usually not. Where two entries share a number they were drawn around different machines — the inch figure is the screen, and the pattern is the body.

What if nothing here fits?

Write to us with the exact model name. We will tell you which pattern comes closest, or that we have not drawn one, which is an answer we give more often than you would expect.