The Heirloom is just such a product. It’s basically a huge, red, plushy tomato with a tripod mount sticking out of its top. It will stabilize your camera on surfaces where a tripod or other means of stabilization won’t work, and hence its creator aptly describes it with the words, “Sometimes freedom comes in the form of a big red tomato.”
The Heirloom camera stand is made out of water resistant Cordura that can be filled with many different things – its creator prefers to fill it with navy beans, but you’re of course not limited to that. When mounting a camera or smartphone (via a tripod adapter for smartphones) to the Heirloom, its creator promises that it’ll help position your camera on surfaces where you can’t set up a tripod, and that it offers more protection than using, for example, a beanie bag because the camera is attached to it via the tripod mount.
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The campaign has a rather optimistic financing goal of $43,000, of which so far roughly $6,500 have been raised. With more than two weeks to go, you can support the project by pledging as little as $1. For a pledge of $30, you can be one of the first to receive a final Heirloom tomato camera stand in either red or the limited yellow edition. The regular price of the Heirloom will be $40 for just the bag, and $50 for the tomato in addition to a filling of beans.
Fore more information on the Heirloom camera stand, please visit the project’s Kickstarter page. Oh, and in case you were wondering about its strange name: it’s named after a variety of tomato that it resembles.
