{ "id": "overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck", "sku": "overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck", "title": "Overhead Phone Tripod with 16.5-Inch Flexible Gooseneck", "slug": "overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck", "price": 156.99, "currency": "CAD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "camera-tripods", "category_label": "Tripods & Mounts", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://mycamerashop.net/dropship-images/camera-tripods/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/main-overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck.jpg", "https://mycamerashop.net/dropship-images/camera-tripods/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck-2.jpg", "https://mycamerashop.net/dropship-images/camera-tripods/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck-3.jpg", "https://mycamerashop.net/dropship-images/camera-tripods/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck-4.jpg", "https://mycamerashop.net/dropship-images/camera-tripods/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck-5.jpg", "https://mycamerashop.net/dropship-images/camera-tripods/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck-6.jpg" ], "description_short": "Extends from 16 to 92 inches, has a phone clip with a stated 2.8 to 5.7 inch adjustment, and ships with a Bluetooth remote, cold shoe mount and weighted base for steady shots.", "description": "The shot everyone wants and nobody can rig\n\nTop-down video looks simple. A pair of hands, a cutting board, a sketchbook, a set of nails being painted, all seen from directly above. It is the clearest way to show someone how to do something, because the camera sees what you see.\n\nGetting there is the annoying part. A regular tripod points forward. Tilt the head all the way down and the legs are still in the shot, or the phone is too far back to fill the frame. So people improvise. Books stacked on a chair. A phone taped to the underside of a shelf. A friend holding it and slowly drifting out of alignment over ten minutes.\n\nA gooseneck tripod fixes this with one change. Instead of a short, rigid head, there is a long bendable arm. You plant the legs beside your work surface, bend the arm out over it, and the phone looks straight down. The legs stay out of frame because they are off to the side. Once you have used one, the book-stacking era feels very far away.\n\nHow the gooseneck part works\n\nThe arm on this model is 16.5 inches long. It is a flexible section that holds whatever shape you bend it into, with a 1/4 inch ball head at the end for the phone clip.\n\nThat reach is what decides your framing. If the base sits a foot from the edge of your table, the arm can carry the phone roughly over the middle of a standard work area. For a wide dining table you may need to move the base closer or accept a slightly off-centre view. It is worth measuring your surface before you buy any gooseneck product, because arm length is the one spec you cannot adjust later.\n\nThe ball head at the tip does the fine work. Get the arm roughly into position first, then use the head to square the phone up so the edges of your board run parallel with the edges of the frame. Crooked top-down shots are distracting, and the ball head is how you fix them in seconds.\n\nHeight matters more than people expect\n\nThe legs here run from 16 inches at the bottom to 92 inches at the top, folding back to 16 inches for storage. That is a wide range, and it is the reason this stand does more than one job.\n\nAt the short end it sits on a desk or a counter for close work. Somewhere in the middle it stands on the floor beside a kitchen island, with the arm reaching across. At the tall end it clears a standing person's head, which is what you need for a full-body shot, a dance clip, or a group photo where you want a bit of downward angle.\n\nThe maker describes a flip-lock design that folds the stand down quickly. It does not go into more detail than that, so read the instructions before your first setup.\n\nA note on height and stability. Every tripod gets twitchier as it gets taller, because the same small nudge at the base turns into a bigger swing at the top. The weighted base on this one helps a lot, but at 92 inches you still want the legs spread wide and nothing bumping into them. Indoors that is easy. Outside in a breeze, drop the height a little.\n\nDoes your phone fit, and what else can you mount\n\nThe maker's text gives the clip an adjustable extension from 2.8 to 5.7 inches and says it takes iPhone and Android phones even in bulky cases. Its own photo of the holder marks the opening as 2.2 to 3.5 inches. If your phone is large or lives in a thick case, measure it against the smaller figure.\n\nThe stated weight limit is 2.2 pounds. That sounds modest until you work out what it actually includes. A large phone weighs around half a pound. Add a small shotgun mic and an LED panel and you are still comfortably inside the limit. A compact camera or action camera also fits, since there is a standard 1/4 inch thread. What does not belong here is a mirrorless body with a chunky lens. That is a job for a heavier video tripod.\n\nThe phone clip also carries a cold shoe mount. This is a small bracket where accessories slide in. For overhead cooking or craft work, a little directional mic on that shoe picks up your voice far better than the phone's own mic pointing at the ceiling. A small light on it kills the shadow your own head casts over the work. Those two accessories change the quality of a top-down video more than almost anything else you can buy.\n\nThe remote is not a gimmick\n\nA Bluetooth remote comes in the box, with a range of up to 30 feet. It pairs with your phone the way any Bluetooth accessory does and fires the shutter.\n\nIf you only ever film seated at a desk, you may rarely touch it. The moment you are shooting anything where you have to be in frame, it becomes the most used part of the kit. Set up the shot, walk over, press the button, no sprinting back to the stand with a self-timer counting down. For group photos outdoors or solo vlogging, this is the difference between five usable takes and forty.\n\nOne practical tip. The maker does not say what battery the remote uses, so check the battery compartment and the instructions when you unbox it.\n\nWho this suits\n\nAnyone who films their hands. Cooks, bakers, crafters, artists, people doing product demos, repair tutorials, unboxings, resin pours, hobby painting. If the useful view is from above, this is the shape of stand you want.\n\nIt also suits people who film themselves. The height range covers seated and standing, and the remote makes solo shooting workable. Live streamers use it at eye level with a mic on the shoe.\n\nAnd then there is the quiet third group. People who bought it for filming and now use it to hold the phone over the bed, or beside the couch, or propped up in the kitchen while they follow a recipe. The gooseneck is genuinely good at that, because it puts the screen where your eyes already are instead of making you crane your neck.\n\nWho it does not suit: anyone needing to support a heavy camera rig, anyone who needs weather resistance, and anyone whose work surface is wide enough that 16.5 inches of arm will not reach the middle.\n\nLooking after it\n\nThere is not much to it. Wipe the legs and arm with a dry or barely damp cloth and dry everything before you fold it. The locks are the only part that really suffers from neglect, and the culprit is grit. Sand and dust in a lock makes it stiff and eventually stops it gripping. If you have been at the beach, brush the sections off before you collapse them.\n\nLoosen locks before extending or retracting rather than forcing sections. Store it folded in a bag so the gooseneck is not pressed against something hard, since a permanent kink in the arm is the one piece of damage you cannot undo. Pull the battery from the remote if it is going into storage for a season.\n\nThe maker states it is not water resistant, so keep it under cover in rain.\n\nChoosing between designs\n\nIf you are comparing options, three things decide it.\n\nArm reach against your surface size. Everything else is adjustable. This is not.\n\nHeight range against your use. A short tabletop gooseneck is cheaper but will never do a standing full-body shot. A tall tripod without a gooseneck will never do a clean overhead. This one tries to cover both, which is why the 16 to 92 inch spread is the headline number.\n\nWeight limit against what you actually mount. If a microphone and a light are in your plans, make sure the combined load sits inside the 2.2 pounds here.\n\nThe short version\n\nThis is a black aluminum tripod with a 16.5 inch flexible gooseneck, a height range of 16 to 92 inches, and a folded size of 16 inches. The clip has a stated 2.8 to 5.7 inch adjustment, the ball head and 1/4 inch thread take cameras and ring lights, and the stated limit is 2.2 pounds. A Bluetooth remote with up to 30 feet of range and a cold shoe mount for a mic or light come in the box.\n\nIf you film from above and you are tired of balancing your phone on a stack of books, this is the straightforward fix.", "llm_summary": "This is a black aluminum overhead phone tripod with a 16.5 inch flexible gooseneck, model name UB-67INRJBK, model number TBC001. The legs extend from a 16 inch minimum to a 92 inch maximum and fold back to 16 inches with a flip-lock design on a weighted base. The maker's text gives the phone clip a 2.8 to 5.7 inch adjustment for iPhone and Android phones including those in cases, while its holder photo marks 2.2 to 3.5 inches. The stated weight limit is 2.2 pounds. It uses a ball head and a 1/4 inch thread, so cameras, ring lights and webcams also mount. The stated components are the tripod, gooseneck, phone holder and a Bluetooth remote with a range of up to 30 feet, and the main photo also shows a carry bag. The clip has a cold shoe mount for a microphone or LED light. It is not water resistant. Weight and country of origin are not specified by the maker.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; provincial consumer protection law for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Camera Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://mycamerashop.net/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/", "canonical_url": "https://mycamerashop.net/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck/", "json_url": "https://mycamerashop.net/api/products/overhead-phone-tripod-gooseneck.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }