The Best Monopod Hey everyone Chris Winter here with another
DSLR video tip.
Now I’ve got to admit I’m super excited today because I’ve got this tip which will
turn this $60 video monopod that you can get on EBay or Amazon into the ultimate video
monopod.
Now this is gonna be super portable but also super stable, so it is.
So in my search for the ultimate video monopod I’ve come across a few different products
that I’m gonna kinda put together to make this really really great monopod.
Now the first product that I’ve got is this $60 EBay monopod that you can pick up like
I said on EBay or Amazon.
Now it’s a really fantastic monopod, it’s really lightweight and it also goes out to
something like 6 foot which is a really good height.
The only problem with it that I found with it is that these feet aren’t super stable
when you’ve got it up really high because it sometimes get a little bit weighty and
sometimes can tip over when you’ve got your camera on there which is no good.
So what I’ve done is taken off these feet which you can easily do with this screw right
here and then I’m going to add it to this tripod which is one of my favorite travel
tripods that I’ve ever used.
It’s the Velbon Ultra Maxi tripod and it is incredibly small when it’s broken down
like this.
It also goes out to a really solid height but for these purposes we’re only gonna
use it to about this height.
Now the attachment for this tripod is too small so as you can see you’re gonna need
one of these adapters that you can get on EBay or Amazon for really cheap, I’ll put
a link in the description below if you want to pick up one for yourself.
So what you do is just put this adapter right on the tripod like this and then simply screw
this monopod right on it like this.
You can already see that you’re gonna be having one beast of a monopod.
So what we’ve done here is turn this monopod which didn’t have good feet into the ultimate
video monopod which is super strong and super stable and still you know not much bigger
than some of the (unclear) monopods.
Okay so I’m gonna take this out and show you what it can do and how stable it is, so
see you then.
Okay so this is the video monopod completely extended actually, it’s not completely extended
this can go much higher as you can see right here.
It can go incredibly high which you would never need to use it that much high, but what
I want to show you is just how steady this monopod is you don’t even need to be holding
it at all.
I’m on a pretty windy beach as you can see and it is working really well.
Now I’ll just cut to my DSLR right here and as you can see it is completely steady
like this.
Let’s do a bit of a pan around and as you can see it’s essentially the same as being
locked off on a tripod.
Now before in my last review of the actual EBay $60 monopod I did say that it was pretty
steady but the big thing really is that it can stand up on its own, because if you’re
every doing any one man band kind of stuff and you want to film yourself you want the
monopod to be there and you want it to be secure.
Now another thing you can do to make it more secure is actually put these feet out to about
their first lock up position and you’ll see that you’re getting an even more secure
hold which is pretty good.
So I’ll just give you a bit of footage of how secure this really is and then I’ll
see you in for the wrap of the review, see ya.
So there you have it my ultimate monopod which I kind of created and I hope you like it just
as much as I do because I really think this is about as a secure monopod you’re gonna
get for video shooting so I’m super happy about it.
Now if you got any questions about this video monopod just leave me a comment in the comments
and I’ll try and get back to you.
I’m sure you’re kind of wondering how it works because I kinda rushed it a bit but
yeah, I’m 100% happy with it and I’m sure you’ll be too.
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guys I’ll see you next time for the next video, see ya.