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 spidey
  
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
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< on 2/27/2007 4:20 AM >
|  | | | this was made from an old tripod head and the stake and shaft from some outdoor lights . . . it works pretty well
any ideas as to how to make a tripod about the same size?
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colinski
  
Location: Virginia
Gender: Male
head like a hole
| | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 1 on 2/27/2007 6:40 AM >
| | | | Pretty easy. 1/2" galvanized steel pipe with threaded end (pick your length, it should be precut, or most places like lowes or home depot will thread it for you). Get metal end caps. Take one metal cap and drill a hole in it, then put the appropriately threaded screw into the hole (i think 1/4" will be standard) to screw into your camera base (put a nut on each side of the cap to lock it in place). The other cap, do the same, but get a longer screw for that end to stick into the ground. screw the caps on each side and you have the poor man's monpod. you can probably figure out a way to finagle a more proper head on the one end, but this works okay. if this doesn't quite make sense, let me know and i'll try to clarify it.
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Glass
  
Location: Chicago
as one does
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<Reply # 2 on 2/27/2007 6:55 AM >
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That's neat!
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spidey
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
| | | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 3 on 2/27/2007 12:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by colinski
Pretty easy. 1/2" galvanized steel pipe with threaded end (pick your length, it should be precut, or most places like lowes or home depot will thread it for you). Get metal end caps. Take one metal cap and drill a hole in it, then put the appropriately threaded screw into the hole (i think 1/4" will be standard) to screw into your camera base (put a nut on each side of the cap to lock it in place). The other cap, do the same, but get a longer screw for that end to stick into the ground. screw the caps on each side and you have the poor man's monpod. you can probably figure out a way to finagle a more proper head on the one end, but this works okay. if this doesn't quite make sense, let me know and i'll try to clarify it.
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i have a poor mans monopod . . . its pretty efficient too.
Im looking for how to make a poor mans tripod about the same size . . . and help?
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colinski
Location: Virginia
Gender: Male
head like a hole
| | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 4 on 2/27/2007 1:59 PM >
| | | | ooh, i guess i misunderstood and thought you wanted something similar to what you had in the picture. there might be a four way pipe adapter that you can screw three legs into. it won't be folding, but it'll be sturdy. if i run across anything on how to fabricate folding legs, i'll keep you posted.
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spidey
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
| | | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 5 on 2/27/2007 9:53 PM >
| | | | thanks thats what i was looking for . . .
and thank you for contributing regardless of the nature of what i wanted
now some rookies can look at this thread and see ideas for themselves in the future as opposed to creating a new thread
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Corvid
Location: Oxford, UK
Gender: Male
Master of Illusion!!
| | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 6 on 2/27/2007 10:22 PM >
| | | | Dunno how stuck for money you are, but you can get basic tripods for $16 off eBay. I bought one of equal "quality" for about £10, and they really aren’t that bad at all. Fairly sturdy, nice and light. $16 well spent if you ask me. Unless you happen to have a lot of free materials and the use of workshop tools, I can imagine it being rather difficult to construct your own folding tripod. Good luck either way though!
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spidey
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
| | | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 7 on 2/27/2007 10:32 PM >
| | | | i have a lot of free materials and a workshop hah
but im looking for some macguiver kind of work to do
money is nice and all but im trying to use found objects and not spend a lot . . . i already have a cheap head off a broken tripod but the tripod is not useable
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colinski
Location: Virginia
Gender: Male
head like a hole
| | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 8 on 2/28/2007 5:10 AM >
| | | | Posted by spidey
i already have a cheap head off a broken tripod but the tripod is not useable
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is the ring from the tripod usable? you can probably put pins through the existing leg joints and attach metal rods.
another thought is to make a four legged tripod by bending two pipes in half and screwing them one on top of the other. or get a cross coupler. i don't think you can do three legs that easily.
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spidey
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
| | | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 9 on 2/28/2007 5:14 PM >
| | | | i actually figured it out thanks to a friend . . . thank you all though
im using tent stakes that are made for sand so that they are broad. i am bending one face and driving screws through them in order to attach them to the monopod ive fashioned . . . should mate right up in theory
worst case scenario . . . i use a monopod hah
and the tripod isn;t useable because its way too big and im not wiling to cannibalize it yet. the legs work but the "permanent" head can come off and it no longer adjusts along the shaft up and down . . . hence it being broken
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colinski
Location: Virginia
Gender: Male
head like a hole
| | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 10 on 3/1/2007 1:08 AM >
| | | | throw some pictures up when you're done, please. i'd like to see the result.
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FernaldSpecter
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Gender: Male
Great Job!
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<Reply # 11 on 3/1/2007 2:27 AM >
| | | | Very interesting, good thinking, and cheap.
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spidey
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
| | | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 12 on 3/1/2007 2:34 AM >
| | | | ive actually had a couple of designs
a lot of them simple enough i just need to use power tools (bandsaw etc) to make them and right now is an indecent hour so hopefully by this weekend ill have gotten to it
but the monopod is pretty bitchin . . . dont really need much of a tripod except for long exposures
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Gordo
Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA
Gender: Male
| |  |  | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 13 on 3/1/2007 4:39 AM >
| | | | Use a 10 gallon bucket, a brick, and a small stick. ;)
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Twat
Location: Denver-ish, Colorado
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 14 on 3/5/2007 6:34 AM >
| | | | If all else fails:
Attach some heavy duty wire to it, wrap it in tape, and you've got a tripod you can attach to anything.
Of course, it would be hard to level. I've seen a few that have a regular water-bubble level attached, though.
I've spent a lot of time wandering camera stores with a photographer. I always see things and wonder how to fabricate a DIY version, and how much cheaper it would be. I think this particular sort of tripod was called a "gorilla-pod' or something like that.
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imprezawrxsti
Location: Portland, OR
Gender: Male
nothing is true; everything is permitted
| | | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 15 on 3/5/2007 7:47 AM >
| | | | i am seriously considering buying a carbon fibre manfrotto.
yeah student loan money!
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natxtron
Location: memphis
urbanesquelation
| |  | Re: makeshift tripod
<Reply # 16 on 3/5/2007 8:16 AM >
| | | | i know this isn't make shift, but i just got an amvona tripod of ebay for not too much money (less than 100$ which is still a good sum of money for a lot of people). the nice thing is, i won't have to buy another cheap tripod for the next few years and the tripod i bought is f'n bomb proof. i have gone through three cheapo tripods in less than two years and finally decided to get something with a little more oomph. it's a little on the heavy side, about fifteen pounds but i can deal with it. for now.
i took it to the waltz n splore meet with me for the first trial this past weekend and i was able to get shots i've never been able to get before. it extends almost seven feet! i got the trigger handle ball grip head and the aluminum legs. the quality is similar to manfrotto for less money. i may upgrade to the carbon fiber legs later when i can afford it. very worth checking into if you need a decent tripod. on the other hand, amvona seems to have a pretty bad customer service rap. there was a lot of complaints about the shipping too. i havn't had a problem with them. but i've only ordered two things.
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