I spent some time last year walking around with the central column of my tripod as a monopod. It sort of makes an interesting walking stick, and can be used to swish amongst the herbage to see what flies out, but it didn't really suite my photography style. All to often I was releasing the camera from it so that I could get in close to an butterfly or dragonfly, and invariable the vibration of the pod dropping to the ground disturbed the insect.
I could never work out a way of quickly altering the height as the insect moved up or down a stem.
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