Kevin Kelly sends out a great newsletter called Cool Tools, which mostly features readers’ recommendations for great tools of all types (software, gardening, boat-making and so forth). He’s also got a blog that covers the same stuff.
He recently passed on a great tip about steadying your camera in low light. It’s not on his site yet, so I’ll reproduce it here:
For small, point & shoot digital cameras, there is always the problem of holding it steady in low light situations. I happened upon something — the “Chain Pod” — that was used back when the first 35mm cameras appeared. To make one is easy — just buy a 1/4″ #20 thumb screw from Home Depot and a 6′ length of small chain. Drill a hole in the thumb part of the screw and attach the chain. After attaching it into the tripod mount hole, just step on the chain and pull the camera upwards until taunt. I was thrilled by how light it is (and portable — in your pocket!) and how well it works.
Top tip! I’ve got a Nikon D-70, but I’ll bet it would work in the same way. I must give that a try.
UPDATE: This is my first ever post trying the Windows Live Writer blog editor. Holy crap is it good.
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Great tip! And I too love the Windows Live Writer blog editor. I’ve been using it for about 6 weeks now. Just installed the update – even better! The only issue I have with it is sometimes I forget to set a category; I find the interface for categories a little too subtle. But the image manipulation is awesome and the editing is really slick.