If you are just looking for steady, and not support for heavy gear, the
most portable is the eye-bolt (1/4 x 20) and some woven clothesline size
rope. Eye-bolt into camera's tripod socket, rope tied to it (or clipped,
if you want to include one of those as well) and hung to the ground,
where you step on it with your heel and let it come out at your shoe's
toe. Adjust length so camera can be raised to eye level, putting tension
on the rope. Then tie a knot where the rope comes out from behind your
shoe's heel.
Very portable, light, and inexpensive, and it removes a great deal of
your own unsteadiness.
JoMac
On 01/27/2001 10:14, dosk opined:
>Yeah, but then I'll have to saw it off at intervals and put hinges on it
>so's I can fold it....
>Skip
>
>----- Original Message -----
>(Re; dosk message on monopods.....
>
>From: "Bill D. Casselberry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> go down to the hardware store & buy a length of 1-1/2inch round
>> wood like in a closet for clothshangers. Also pick up a metal
>> gizmo that has woodscrew threads on one end and a 3/8ths inch
>> machine thread on the other. Pilot hole and run it into one end
>> of the length of wood - screw tripod head on. Mark off the ideal
>> overall height and saw it off. A couple hoseclamps around the
>> top will add strength where the gizmo is threaded into the wood.
JoMac, Imagineer with Camera
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