Gitzo’s Indiegogo project is a Légende in the making (see what we did there?)
(Image credit: Gitzo)
The Gitzo Légende Tripod and Backpack are designed to last a lifetime with a low environmental impact, which sounds ideal for anyone fed up of a modern throwaway culture. They use sustainable materials and are backed by an unlimited warranty.
Gitzo also says it will donate 5% of profits to Wild Shots Outreach, which provides education and scholarship programs for young people and opens up eco-employment opportunities in the environmental conservation field.
The Légende tripod is the especially interesting component in this kit. Gitzo says its parts are “100% replaceable” to make it “forever repairable” and that 70% of its parts can be replaced by the user. We’re told it’s a completely new tripod design. Gitzo says if any part needs replacing its customer service dept will send it, together with instructions on how to fit it.
We set out to create a product that was forever repairable, could withstand any adventure, and would never be thrown away.
Marco Pezzana, CEO of Gitzo
The Gitzo Légende has four-section carbon fibre legs with aluminium leg locks and a ball head with Arca compatible quick release plate. It can slide into a side pocket of the Gitzo Légende Backpack, below. It follows a travel tripod design, where the legs fold upwards to enclose the center column and ball head for easier stowing when travelling.
The Gitzo Légende backpack is made from 65% recycled materials and “eco-friendly” leather. It has a side pocket for stowing the Légende Tripod, side access for your camera gear and a laptop sleeve. It’s split into two compartments, with a general purpose top compartment and a camera compartment below, with space for a full frame mirrorless camera with 70-200mm f/4 lens attached and two further lenses.
Weight: 1.69kg Volume: 14L Laptop compartment: 15-inch MacBook Camera compartment: 23x28x10.3cm Top compartment: 20x26x10cm
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It’s unusual for a big maker like Gitzo to use a funding platform like Indiegogo, but it it does enable the company to spread the word early and to build funds ahead of the final launch.
You can pre-order now ahead of the Légende’s official launch in June 2021. The advantage of ordering now is that you get prices that are well below what you would normally expect to pay for Gitzo gear, with a Super Early Bird deal at $699 which includes the tripod and backpack and a Gitzo Mini Traveller table top tripod and other deals on the individual items.
Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com
