Bottle cap photography and other Swissmiss links 25 Jan 2006
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This nifty adapter can transform a soda bottle into a monopod (they say tripod but that means three legs, no?). A nice and tiny solution for when you need to take a night shot or self portrait. Found it via Swissmiss, a cool design-centric blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg, Swiss designer gone NYC. Also there: image transfer tutorials, cool fabric collages, scanned images from old books, and more catnip for designers.
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Joshua Blankenship 25 Jan 06
Clever… even potentially useful. Now I want to make one for my Nalgene bottle and i’ll be all set while camping (and not have to pack a monopod or tripod.)
Mike 25 Jan 06
Save the $20 and make your own…
Noah 25 Jan 06
Wow, what a good idea, tho I don’t know how universal it would actually be. A full botle has a lot more mass than just a little camera, it would help with hand held shots and you could just use it to lift the camera up a little.
Sure it’s a gimmick but it’s fun.
Noah 25 Jan 06
I vote for the make your own option. I didn’t think of that.
swissmiss 25 Jan 06
Thank you for the linkage Matt! :)
monkeyinabox 25 Jan 06
I found this tutorial on making your own a while back.
http://www.jakeludington.com/archives/000227.html
Pretty easy and cheap to make. My only complaint, is that if you have liquid in the bottle, it tends to slosh back and forth for a bit, which doesn’t help keep the camera very still. Sand would be better, but that starts to take away from the spontaneity of this tripod.
Joshua Tuscan 25 Jan 06
Swissmiss is great. I read her every day. Good to see her get some promotion.
Thuan 25 Jan 06
So far Jake Ludington is the only guy who published his DIY. But I wonder if he forgot to put a seal to its cap. That would prevent water to come out.
Luke P 25 Jan 06
“(they say tripod but that means three legs, no?)”
True in the sense of language, but not in function. A monopod cannot normally stand on it’s own, where this little guy certainly could. Hence Tripod, i guess.
andy 26 Jan 06
While plastic soda bottles don’t have ‘legs’, they do have 3 little nubby ‘feet’. Tripod. Don’t I feel all high ‘n’ mighty now?
Yes, I do.
Don Wilson 27 Jan 06
I saw this on TechTV about 3 years ago.
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