I have a little 6" tripod and the legs stick almost straight out at the
base. The legs fold up inside the shaft and release with a spring so it can
be setup with 1 hand. folded up it's about the same size as a gator grip
scale (The one with the claw lip grabber). fits into a side pocket of my
tackle bag or in a misc. box on a boat.

I'll follow up with the make and model, but I have left the camera mounted
to it in my bag and it's easy setup and snap. The last few years, I have
just been holding the camera if I wasn't with a partner. But with the new
website photo gallery, I may have to take the ol' tripod out of retirement.

Dave V


"Jim Laumann" wrote in message
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De-lurking......

I found this post very interesting - just picked up a used
digital camera, and I have two point and shoot 35's.

Jerry:

In your post you mention a 1/4" 20 threaded bolt (US coarse
threads)....

I tryed that first w/ the digital camera - bolt turned in to the
socket about 1 thread - then bound. So then I tryed
a 6mm x 1.0 bolt. Same thing - turned in about 1 thread.

The tripod socket on the digital looks to be plastic. Any
one have a camera that has metal? ie brass? What
worked?

Jim