Mobile technology has come a long way over the past 20 years, and a high-resolution camera on a smartphone is no longer a surprise. This is good. You no longer need to carry a camera or camcorder with you all the time. The phone is always with you, and if you need to capture a good picture or shoot a video, you can do it with a simple touch of 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 look at 5 ways to make a tripod for your phone from improvised means.
What do you need a tripod for anyway
A tripod is an indispensable accessory for taking photos or videos. Taking a good picture while holding the phone in your hand is difficult. The hand may tremble with tension or excitement, and thenthe photo will be blurry, out of focus. It can be very sad, looking at the footage, to see that a successful shot is inevitably spoiled. What if it captures a person or place that you will never see again? In such cases, a special tripod for the phone helps out. It firmly fixes the gadget and does not allow the focus to go astray. Then the pictures are of high quality, not blurry.
But what if the picture needs to be taken immediately, but there is no tripod at hand? In such cases, as always, ingenuity and improvised means come to the rescue. Believe me, making a tripod from scrap materials is not such a difficult task.
What can be made of
For a home master, making a tripod is a piece of cake. Even if he is outside his favorite 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 it's garbage. In part, this is true, but not for a home master.
Garbage can be plastic bottles, yogurt cups, beer cans, paper clips, broken pens, pencils. This is a real Klondike for those who "have hands" and a little imagination. All this "garbage" can serve as a starting point for creating our masterpiece.
Tripod from paper clip (binder)
Surely among your office supplies a couple of paper binders are lying around. Of these usefulstuff turns out to be a stable tripod for the phone. One binder must be clamped on the tabletop, pointing it in the required direction. Insert another clamp into the first, and the third into the second, and then you can put the phone into the levers of the second and third binders. This is a very simple design and quite reliable, since all the binders between themselves and the table are fastened with their own springs.
Tripod of clothespins
You can also make a tripod out of these accessories. How will it look like? We need 6 clothespins and a pencil. We attach all the clothespins to the pencil. We turn the two extreme ones by 180 °, and raise the two central ones up perpendicular to the plane. On these two clothespins and you can put the phone. This design is good because it can be rotated around its axis, and the middle “legs” can adjust the shooting angle.
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). On the lid, punch four holes with an awl and insert pencils into them. Between them and fit the phone. This design can be used permanently as a pencil holder. You just need to make more holes for all the available pencils. Thus, you will get a multifunctional accessory that can serve as both a pencil holder and a phone tripod.
Stiff wire tripod
The easiest way to make a tripod for a phone is from a piece of hard stranded wire. Only himbe sure to take in soft insulation, so as not to damage the phone case. We cut off a piece of wire of the desired length and bend one of the ends so as to give it a semblance of legs. The other end, to which the phone will be attached, is bent until a target is formed that is sufficient for attaching the device. We fix the phone and bending the "legs" give it a vertical look. Later in the article we will learn how to make a tripod for a telescope or camera.
Tripod
Tripod for telescope or camera may differ from phone tripod. They are much heavier than the phone, which means that stronger materials must be used for their manufacture. It is best to make a tripod tripod with your own hands. How is a tripod made? For the legs, you need to use three pieces of light tube. Useless aluminum ski poles are best. For the platform, 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 according to the diameter of the tubes. To prevent the platform from falling down, we install clamps on the tubes under it. Due to the fact that the clamps move freely along the tubes, it is possible to adjust the height of the platform and its inclination. It remains to make a mount for a 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, we clamp it with a nut.
Conclusion
So we learned how to make a tripod for the phone,telescope or camera. It is not difficult at all 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 your phone to it with an ordinary hair tie. Think, hold on. You will definitely come up with your own original mount.
