The one dollar tripod.

[anubis404]

Haha awesome. Picked it up at a dollar store in virginia. It sucks, but hey. You get what you pay for.

 

[reg]

Lucky you it's not 5 feet tall, maybe your camera will be okay when it falls to the ground.

 

[anubis404]

Surprisingly it holds up well. Its stable enough not to fall, however the legs like to slowly collapse, and the DSLR is too heavy for it. It kinda droops.

 

[Montana]

It could hold a flash, but damn that thing is short. LOL

 

[manaheim]

I wouldn't advise using that.

Imagine this scenario if you will...

"Oh hey, what a neat skyline..."
<sets up camera on tripod>
<sets up remote shutter release>
<begins taking 30s capture>
17 seconds in...
CRUNCH
CRASH
THUD
SPLASH (river)

Man that $1 tripod just got wicked expensive!

 

[Ptyler22]

I wouldn't advise using that.

Imagine this scenario if you will...

"Oh hey, what a neat skyline..."
<sets up camera on tripod>
<sets up remote shutter release>
<begins taking 30s capture>
17 seconds in...
CRUNCH
CRASH
THUD
SPLASH (river)

Man that $1 tripod just got wicked expensive!

HAHAHAHA, very true.
I had that happen with a friends tripod and it was a 5 footer luckily it wasn't my 40d it was a movie camera, and surprisingly the camera was fine.

 

[Lazy_B]

addictive lil suckers ain't they?

BUT it manages to hold up my mz60 with the 300mm lenses on it :thumbup:

 

[kundalini]

addictive lil suckers ain't they?
....

BUT it manages to hold up my mz60 with the 300mm lenses on it :thumbup:

Good for you. But let me digress just a moment. I'm not sure how much you paid for you 300mm lens and I'm sorry, but I haven't a clue what a "mz60" is.

However, if I were to put my 300mm lens, camera body and quite possibly a flash mounted, we're talking in the neighborhood of over $3000 dollars. Why on earth would I even think of using a dollar tripod? For that matter, if your gear is $30 dollars, why on earth would you even think of using a dollar tripod?

Just my 2¢.

 

[Lazy_B]

Pentax users will know what a MZ60 is.. i use pentax gear mainly because they are interchangable with the normal film SLR's and the DSLR (eg: Pentax k200d ). the 100-300 and the 28-80 len's i picked up second hand for a around 200 NZ dollars. both work extremely well and are suited to my needs. i got that lil tripod for extremely low level photography.and it works... you just got to remember NOT to overload it

 

[kundalini]

My first SLR and it's replacement was a Pentax. That was over 30 years ago. So my not knowing what a MZ60 is has little relevence now. Can you remember what you were doing in the mid 1970's? I'm finding it difficult to discern what happened yesterday.

I still don't trust that damn tripod.

 

[anubis404]

I wouldn't advise using that.

Imagine this scenario if you will...

"Oh hey, what a neat skyline..."
<sets up camera on tripod>
<sets up remote shutter release>
<begins taking 30s capture>
17 seconds in...
CRUNCH
CRASH
THUD
SPLASH (river)

Man that $1 tripod just got wicked expensive!

Obviously I don't use it near water lol.

 

[anubis404]

My first SLR and it's replacement was a Pentax. That was over 30 years ago. So my not knowing what a MZ60 is has little relevence now. Can you remember what you were doing in the mid 1970's? I'm finding it difficult to discern what happened yesterday.

I still don't trust that damn tripod.

Its made of full metal, and if set up properly its not goin anywhere. It just has a habit of lowering itself and drooping sometimes.

 

[KD5NRH]

It could hold a flash, but damn that thing is short. LOL

I picked up four of them at a dollar store not too long ago for just that reason; they look like they'd be perfect when you need a low flash placement.

I also removed the top of one of them and epoxied in the base of it. If I can drill it out and tap it 1/4x20, I can use it to add a bit of tilt capability to one of my ultracheap, ultralight stud-on-a-collapsible-stick monopods for use with a P&S.

 

[prodigy2k7]

Better yet, get a 5 cent monopod...find a bolt that fits the connector on the bottom side of the body. Push it into grass/dirt and presto!

 

[danman281]

I have one of those too. I don't trust it holding up my camera alone because it tilts over a lot. You really do get what you pay for