Customer Reviews

GoPro Tripod Mount for HERO Cameras

5 star:		(31)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Do yourself a favor, and buy a couple of 5mm Hex Nut caps from your local hardware store (my Home Depot had them in packs of 2 for ~ 50 cents, you'll find them in some drawers in the hardware section). The mount doesn't come with the bolt (but you can use the one you already have), but real issue is that it doesn't come with the nut, which all the other mounts have (hence the previous recommendation). Including this nut would have saved me the trouble of going to a hardware store, and getting it on my own. Although, you could probably pull it off one of your other mounts, but that is more of a hassle to pull that tiny thing off, and risk dropping it and losing it.

Anyway, it seems like it will be pretty decent. Pretty overpriced for a plastic adapter to convert it to a tripod mount. It'll definitely do the job, but could have been more handy with the nut, and cheaper would have been better too.

An essential piece to my camera bag, since I plan to do as much video production with my GoPro as possible.

However...

I've heard people complain about having to pay for this tripod mount. Since GoPro is mainly used for action sport/activities where the camera is attached to the person or vehicle, it wouldn't really make sense to add this piece to the already generous slew of mounts that come with the camera. If you're planning on doing videography where the tripod is the camera's main resting place, then the GoPro camera isn't really for you in the first place. This is just something handy to have if the need arises. Not all will use it.

The tripod mount is made of the same high quality plastic as the rest of the mounts -- not much to tell. It does what it does.

However, I have reduced the review from 5 stars to 4 stars because it does not come with the nut you screw into. All the other mounts have their own nut, so I'm not sure why the tripod mount does not come with one.

For some reason GoPro believes this little jewel is worth it's weight in gold because that's about what they charge for it. And I wouldn't object so much but it even doesn't come with a nut. Adding a nut might raise their total production costs all the way up to what, 15 cents maybe. So at nearly eight bucks, the price is totally absurd. But then again, it's the same will all their accessories. They sell the camera cheap and then stick you for the accessories you need to get the most out of it.

Just received 2 of these. Someone heard the voices here because the nut is included now in the packaging. This review reiterates all what was said about this product in previous reviews with exception of the now included nut!

First, this cost me $7.99 at Best Buy and it just made too much sense to not buy it from there. The mount came with the nut some people are complaining about not getting but perhaps its because GoPro listened to their customers and began including it or fixed whatever manufactoring issue was occurring. Don't know.

As far using this, I did not use it to attach my GoPro to a tripod. Instead I screwed a Ram mount with a treaded stud onto the other side of this adapter piece and now I am able to use any Ram Mount with my GoPro. I sometimes ride my motorcycle with a GPS mounted to my triple tree with a Ram Mount. Now I can utilize the GoPro in that location which is good because theres really no good place to mount the camera anywhere else on my triple. This little guy is worth it's weight in gold because the Ram Mounts do not allow for any movement when you have the pieces tightened down well and you can angle it quite well.

This is a handy little addition to the camera bag. I've used it to mount the GoPro to my tripod to get footage of a lightning storm. I stay dry, the camera gets the footage!

This definitely didn't come with my GoPro. Maybe they do now, but this little thing is worth its weight in gold. You can now attach your go pro to most tripods. That means that if you already had in car mounts, on car mounts, you can use what you had already, because those will work now.

I recently purchased the GoPro Tripod Mount for an HD Hero 2. First of all, if you are ordering now, it includes the nut, so all the previous reviews saying it does not are now out of date. However, after only a few uses, the nut came loose and I had to epoxy/crazy glue it into place. This is a common problem across many GoPro mounts. Because the tripod mount does not come with its own thumbscrew (you have to reuse the one that came with your camera or get one in the grab bag of mounts), if the nut falls off, you can easily lose it. Save yourself the headache and epoxy it down beforehand.

No frills, the mount is the same plastic as other mounts. The bottom is pretty sturdy and has some texture on it as seen in the picture to provide more friction. If you are using it with a small monopod such as the T-200L (which allows you to video yourself), you will need a bit of foam tape between the tripod mount and the head of the monopod. I imagine this is more the fault of the T-200L than the GoPro, because with other better quality tripods and monopod connections, it is pretty solid.

Along with a monopod, it makes shooting video of yourself in a 360 degree fashion funny and very easy. If you have a long enough monopod, you can barely see the monopod itself in the video.

I have also used this mount on a Hama car suction mount and it works prett well.

A lot of people have stated that this is overpriced, and I agree. But it does open up a whole host of non-GoPro mount options in more traditional settings: tripods, monopods, existing car mounts, Gorillapods, handheld stabilizers, professional suction cup mounts, etc. that you may already have or be able to buy for your specific application. So bite the bullet, spend the $7 or so on this and open up your GoPro Hero or GoPro HD Hero 1/2 to all sorts of new fun.

Gopro is usually amazing in that everything you could need is included in their setups and yet for some yet to be understood reason they felt that a 5mm nut in this case was not needed and decided to go without including it!!! So now in the middle of my day I have to go to home depot and by a 5 cent 5mmm nut before I can use this - really?? really ??? really???

The fact that i had to buy this $8 piece of plastic to mount to a tripod is extremely annoying i think it should have been included with the camera. My second complaint is the fact that the mount comes with no nut so you can mount it.With out this nut this adapter is completely useless. All the other accessories come standard with this nut but for some reason this one does not, WHY?! Now i have to go scramble thru my spare parts to see if i have one that fits if not then i have to take a trip to the hardware store. Complete waste of time.