Trying out the Gorilla

I have heard and read a lot about the Gorillamobile tripod since I first saw it in a magazine. From the sound of it and limited pictures, it looked like a great idea. My fiance is photography crazy. She has 3 different cameras, one semi-pro DSLR, one almost kaput point-and-shoot, and our newest aquisition, a Canon PowerShot SX120IS 10MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Images Stabilized Zoom and 3-inch LCD. Its one of the best 'easy to use' cameras that we have found after doing quite a bit of research. It is in no way a compact camera, but for its size and weight, its capabilities are amazing... Getting back to the tripod...There are 2 versions of the Gorilla tripods, one for SLRs and one for smaller cameras that also can be used with some phones. After going over the reviews, the Gorillapod for SLRs recieved quite a a bit of negative feedback as it was not holding up the much havier SLRs. Which made a lot of sense to me looking at the size of the tripod and its legs compared to the size of most SLRs without even bigger lenses intalled. However, the more I looked into the Gorillamobile pod, the more liked it features, the flexibilty and utility. Hence, I decided to try it out and purchased one for the holidays for our new point-and-shoot camera. We will be testing it out in coming weeks and will report back with my own review of this little tripod.