My wife, a former journalist and wannabe travel writer, recently forwarded an interesting online newsletter called The Right Way to Travel. It’s from a company that trains people to be travel writers and photographers.
For all you Your Blog photographers, the e-letter and its free archives offer some great tips, including this from what I call the how-in-the-heck-did-they-know-that category:
Just about every camera (even point-and-shoot cameras) has a little hole on the bottom so you can screw the camera onto a tripod.
Did you know, though, that the screw coming out of the top of a tripod is the same size as the screw that comes out of the top of many living room lampshades?
That means, if you’re ever caught indoors without a tripod, you can just unscrew the top of a nearby lamp and screw your camera on instead. Instant tripod.
For what it’s worth that’s something of which most photographers, if not 99.99% of the world’s population, have no clue.
Now please excuse me while I gin up some “Have Laptop, Will Travel for Pay” business cards ….
August 5th, 2008 at 10:24 am
WOW, I never knew that one, great tip.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Worth the wait
- fantastic tip!
August 5th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
That is a very clever tip. Seems obvious and easy now that you’ve shared, but one that I would have never thought about!
August 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I wouldn`t have thought about this either. You can bet I won`t forget it, I could have used the lamp many times in the past. What other goodies does this news letter contain?
August 13th, 2008 at 8:31 am
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