Have you guys considered any of the products that our favorite curmudgeon Walt,
recommended to me?
I bought a monopod/walking stick (Polecat Explorer)from StoneyPoint and I love
it -- light, sturdy and incredibly well-built.
http://www.stoneypoint.com/monopod_index.html
I'm sure if you contacted them, they have a number of other products
(primarily marketed towards hunters) that could be added to the monopod such as
the Polecat folding bipod or telescoping bipod to create a portable tripod. You
might also consider one or more of the following:
http://www.stoneypoint.com/convertapod_index.html
Clamp & Pivot Set (CP-106)
Tag Along (for camera) (CP-112)
- Craig
----- Original Message ----
From: tOM Trottier <tOM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:48:13 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: ultra light tripod
No ball head, but maybe able to take hiking sticks screwed in.
Alas, it says"Only the Novoflex telescope rods fit to the BasicBall." and
it's heavy - about 400g.
A upside-down pyramid shape would give a flat surface for the sticks to
screw to, making it stronger, perhaps lighter.
Using a half-sphere allows you more choices of leg angle by using many
holes.
Any machinists on the list?
tOM
On 28 Feb 2006 at 11:49,
Piers Hemy <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You are thinking maybe of the Novoflex Basicball mounted on a Novoflex
> BasicStock (made by Leki)
>
> Near the bottom of this page:
>
> http://www.hpmarketingcorp.com/novoflex.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of tOM Trottier
>
> The trek-pod is heavier than a trail pole (32 vs 8 oz) and looks shaky.
>
> I wish there were a dinkus with a ball head on top and holes at angles
> around the bottom to screw onto two or three hiking poles to form a bipod or
> tripod.
>
> Maybe drill & tap a small ball head? Or weld/braze some wide knurled "tripod
> nuts" to it?
>
> tOM
---
-- Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur --
,__@ tOM Trottier, 758 Albert St,
_-\_<, Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7V8
(*)/'(*) N45.412 W75.714 +1 613 860-6633
Abacurial Information Architecture
SETI stats
This world, after all our science and
sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful,
inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever
will think of it. --Thomas Carlyle
-- No attachments (even text) are allowed --
-- Type: text/plain
-- Desc: Attachment information.
-- No attachments (even text) are allowed --
-- Type: Application/Octet-stream
-- File: tom-smallest.jpg
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
|