Recent Purchase - Joby JM1-01WW GripTight Mount

Joby JM1-01WW GripTight Mount (Black): The perfect holder for any smartphone, any tripod, anywhere! This is the only tripod mount that supports all the best-selling smartphones, with or without a protective case. It is compatible with GorillaPods™ and other tripods via a universal stainless steel ¼"-20 thread. The GripTight Mount stabilizes and positions your smartphone to give you steady video and crisp photos from new perspectives. It is designed with a durable steel inner frame and rubber grip pads that holds your phone in place, even when rotated sideways or upside down. Furthermore, it is fold-able and portable. The legs fold in making it easy to fit it in your pocket or bag. you can also attach a lanyard to it and add it to your key chain so it's always with you. Even though I have never been one for taking many pictures with my phone, I have begun to realize that this seems to be where the trend in picture taking is headed. With higher mega-pixel resolution cameras on phones, due to rapidly Increasing technologies in the areas of smaller camera censors, smaller lenses, more powerful memory chips, and a vast array of post editing software for phones has made picture taking with a phone almost a violable option for obtaining quality pictures. Today there are an overwhelming number of photo related apps to help edit, enhance, and share pictures, and while in-phone editing can be convenient and fun, there is always the ability to download the pictures to a computer for post editing with a full version of Adobe Photoshop, or other editing software, opening up many possibilities like layer masking, unsharp mask, noise reduction, and more. For example, my new Samsung Galaxy S4 has a 13-Megapixel auto-focus camera that allows you to simultaneously take pictures with both its front and (2MP) rear camera. This is 12x the megapixel count of my first handheld digital camera, an Olympus D450 1.2MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom that cost nearly $300. Check out my tips for taking pictures with a cell-phone camera …. Tips for Taking Better Cell Phone Pictures.