Posted by PTravel on 11/04/05 03:38

"Brian" <fake@fake> wrote in message news:436aaa06@clear.net.nz...
> Rick Merrill wrote:
> > I'm mystified by the "mono-pod" (c.f. tri-pod)
> > Are they "for" something or are they used in sets?
>
> If you are a tourist, they have two uses:
> 1) provide some image stability with little more inconvenience than
> cayying around a walking stick,
> 2) can be held up to film above the heads of a crowd.
>
> I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...

1 and 2, certainly. And here are some more:

- if you wedge it up against something, e.g. a wall, table, tree, etc., it
is as stable as a tripod.

- many venues don't allow tripods, but don't know what to make of a monopod.
I've used them successfully in museums and the like that ban tripods.

- a variation on number 2, above, but they also let you extend the camera
where you otherwise could not reach, e.g. over the side of a boat, out the
window of a moving car, etc.


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> --brian
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> "What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping
> meat fresh."

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