Travel Tripod / Peak Design
Peak Design spent four years on the Travel Tripod to solve one problem the category had ignored: the wasted air between round legs. By reshaping the legs to pack tightly around the centre column, the folded tripod comes down to roughly the diameter of a water bottle while still reaching about 1.5 metres extended. The five-section legs release together on cam levers, and the ball head replaces the usual cluster of knobs with a single adjustment ring and a locking ring. It holds up to 9.1kg, enough for most mirrorless and DSLR setups, and hides a phone mount in the centre column. It comes in aluminium or a lighter, costlier carbon-fibre version, both fully serviceable. It suits photographers who carry a tripod reluctantly and want one that disappears into a bag.
Design intent
- +Reshaping the legs to nest around the centre column is the core decision, removing the dead volume of a conventional tripod so it packs to the width of a water bottle without losing height.
- +Collapsing the head's controls into a single adjustment ring and a locking ring strips out the knobs and levers that slow a tripod down, prioritising speed of setup.
Trade-offs
- -The packed-tight engineering and single-ring head carry a price well above conventional travel tripods of similar height and load.
- -The compact built-in ball head prioritises packing efficiency over a full modular head system, and fitting a geared or video head needs a separate adaptor.
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Peak Design spent four years on the Travel Tripod to solve one problem the category had ignored: the wasted air between round legs. By reshaping the legs to pack tightly around the centre column, the folded tripod comes down to roughly the diameter of a water bottle while still reaching about 1.5 metres extended. The five-section legs release together on cam levers, and the ball head replaces the usual cluster of knobs with a single adjustment ring and a locking ring. It holds up to 9.1kg, enough for most mirrorless and DSLR setups, and hides a phone mount in the centre column. It comes in aluminium or a lighter, costlier carbon-fibre version, both fully serviceable. It suits photographers who carry a tripod reluctantly and want one that disappears into a bag.
Design intent
- +Reshaping the legs to nest around the centre column is the core decision, removing the dead volume of a conventional tripod so it packs to the width of a water bottle without losing height.
- +Collapsing the head's controls into a single adjustment ring and a locking ring strips out the knobs and levers that slow a tripod down, prioritising speed of setup.
Trade-offs
- -The packed-tight engineering and single-ring head carry a price well above conventional travel tripods of similar height and load.
- -The compact built-in ball head prioritises packing efficiency over a full modular head system, and fitting a geared or video head needs a separate adaptor.
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