On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:18:56 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:03:50 -0700, Peter Bennett
wrote:


Could you put the object-to-be photographed on a board supported at an
angle - then you wouldn't have to point the camera straight down - and
you could select the angle to keep the tripod legs out of the picture.

That would work for those pieces that didn't want to slide.

Use poster putty or somesuch to hold the thing in place.

What I'm looking into is a cheap head that will attach to the bottom
of the pole slide.

Tripod threads are 1/4-20 - get a piece of 3/4 x 3/4 thin angle from
Home Depot, and a short 1/4-20 bolt and a couple of nuts. Drill a
1/4" hole in one face of the angle, near the end, for the camera
mount, and one in the other face, a suitable distance from the end,
for the tripod.

...Jim Thompson

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