Over the past 20 years, mobile technology has advanced far, and a good-resolution camera on a smartphone will not surprise anyone. It's good. You no longer need to constantly carry a camera or camcorder with you. The phone is always with you, and if you need to capture a good frame or shoot a video, you can do this by simply touching the screen. In order for the frame to be of good quality, you can’t do without one gadget. This is a tripod. But you must admit that carrying a tripod with you is not the best option. Therefore, in the article we will consider 5 ways how to make a tripod for the phone from improvised means.
What is a tripod for?
A tripod is an indispensable device for taking photos or videos. Taking a good shot while holding the phone in your hand is difficult. The hand may tremble with tension or excitement, and then the photo will turn out blurry, out of focus. It is very sad when looking at the footage to see that a successful shot is inevitably corrupted. And if a person or place is filmed on it that you will never see again? In such cases, a special tripod for the phone helps out. It rigidly fixes the gadget and does not allow the focus to stray. Then the pictures are obtained high-quality, not blurry.
But what if the picture needs to be taken immediately, but the tripod is not at hand? In such cases, as always, savvy and improvised means come to the rescue. Believe me, making a tripod from improvised materials is not such a difficult task.
What can be done
To make a tripod for a home craftsman is a couple of trifles. Even if he is outside his beloved workshop, he will always be able to adapt seemingly completely unnecessary things to his needs. In our case, we make a tripod for the phone. If you are in nature, what do you see around you? Many will say that trash. In part, this is true, but not for the home master.
Plastic bottles, yogurt glasses, beer cans, paper clips, broken pens, and pencils can be rubbish. This is a real klondike for someone who has "hands" and a little imagination. All this “garbage” can serve as a starting point for the creation of our masterpiece.
Tripod made of paper clip (binder)
Surely among your stationery there are a couple of binders lying around to clip paper. From such useful things you get a stable tripod for your phone. One binder must be clamped on the table top, pointing it in the necessary direction. Insert another clip in the first, and a third in the second and then you can put the phone into the levers of the second and third binder. This is a very simple design and quite reliable, since all the binders are fastened together with their own springs between themselves and the table.
Clothespin Tripod
Of these accessories, you can also make a tripod. How will it look like? We will need 6 clothespins and a pencil. We attach all clothespins to a pencil. We rotate the two extremes 180 °, and raise the two central ones upward perpendicular to the plane. On these two clothespins and you can put the phone. This design is good in that it can be rotated around its axis, and the shooting angle can be adjusted with the middle “legs”.
How to make a tripod out of a cardboard box and pencils
Here, too, everything is simple. You need to take a small cardboard box (you can from under the phone itself). Punch four holes on the lid with an awl and insert pencils into them. Between them and fit the phone. This design can be used constantly as a stand for pencils. It is only necessary to make more holes for all the available pencils. Thus, you will get a multifunctional accessory that can serve as a stand for pencils, and as a tripod for the phone.
Hard Wire Tripod
The easiest way to make a tripod for your phone is from a piece of hard stranded wire. Only it must be taken in soft insulation, so as not to damage the phone. We cut off a piece of wire of the desired length and bend one of the ends so as to give it the appearance of legs. The other end, to which the phone will be attached, is bent until a target is formed that is sufficient to secure the device. We fix the phone and bend the “legs” to give it a vertical look. Later in the article, we will learn how to make a tripod for a telescope or camera.
Tripod tripod
The tripod for the telescope or camera may differ from the telephone. They are much heavier than the phone, which means that more durable materials should be used for their manufacture. Doing it yourself is best done with a do-it-yourself tripod. How is a tripod made? For legs, you need to use three pieces of light tube. Unnecessary aluminum ski poles are best suited. For the platform we use a piece of thick plywood or board. A platform is cut out of it in the form of a triangle.
At the corners of the site, holes are drilled along the diameter of the tubes. So that the site does not fall down, we install clamps on the tubes under it. Due to the fact that the clamps move freely along the tubes, you can adjust the height of the site and its inclination. It remains to make a mount for the telescope or camera on the site. We drill a hole in the center of our triangle and insert the mounting screw for the telescope. On the reverse side, clamp it with a nut.
Conclusion
So we learned how to make a tripod for a phone, telescope or camera. This is not difficult if you have a little imagination and improvised material. Only some popular methods are described here. But there are many more. You can, for example, use a plastic bottle filled with water and attach a telephone to it using an ordinary hair elastic. Think, dare. You will definitely come up with your original mount.