While taking some close-up pictures for a WIP/tutorial, it became obvious that a tripod isn't the perfect camera support for all situations. Easy enough to get the camera in position, but there wasn't any room for me.
I threw together a very adjustable auxiliary support from a stick, a piece of pvc pipe, two conduit clips, and a bar clamp, along with some nuts and bolts. The conduit clips aren't the right size for the pipe, but they submitted to some persuasion from a hammer. It all went together pretty fast; in fact, it took almost as long to make the cardboard box that simulates the camera.
Management types like to say, "Keep it simple;" sometimes they add a sanctimonius "stupid." That's often a recipe for an incomplete design, and in the real world we have to add complexity to satisfy requirements; then we simplify it. In this case, the alpha version was perfect enough. Even Dilbert's PHB would approve.
The picture (pic 4) was rotated in software.
Joe
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