Review: DIY: The Super-Small Bottle-Cap Tripod
Another useful idea from the DIYPhotography.net site
DIY: The Super-Small Bottle-Cap Tripod
When you are going on a field trip, you want your tripod to be small. Small and light. It would be best if it can fit in your pocket.
This sounded like a really quick and easy idea so I decided to give it a try. All in all it took about 10 minutes to scramble up the parts and crank out my own bottle-cap tripod. Just as several of the commenters noted, soda bottles are not the most stable so I tried it with a 2 liter bottle filled ¼ of the way with sand and it was rock solid, or at least as rock solid as a plastic bottle with a little point and shoot on top of it could be. While the solution worked for my quick and easy point and shoot, it was a total failure when I applied my D80 (surrounded by a REALLY think mound of pillows). Still you can’t beat the cost or the geek appeal when you pull one of these out at the next get together.