I have a light weight collapsable walking stick similar to those shown. I don't think it's sturdy enough to operate as a monopod with any significant weight of camera/lens combo.
That light weight tripod might work if the legs could be detached & plugged into walking stick handles. Otherwise you're going to end up carrying BOTH the walking sticks & the tripod. I've used a rather heavy Gitzo monopod as a walking stick, and that worked reasonably well. I've thought about making a detachable headpiece to screw onto it to make it look like Gandalf's staff. On 3/3/2015 1:02 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
G'day all Ever since I had that stroke a couple of years ago I'm finding I get exhausted a lot quicker than I used to. This is curtailing my bushwalking somewhat. I'm wondering whether one or two hiking poles might help - these are the ones I'm considering: http://www.photographybay.com/2015/01/16/manfrotto-officially-launches-off-road-backpacks-walking-sticks-tripods/ One of the side benefits is that one of the poles has a camera mount, so can be used as a monopod. I should add that I'm not talking about extreme bushwalking - I doubt I'd be covering more than perhaps 4 or 6 km over uneven ground in any one walk.
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