If you could eliminate camera shake using only a pocketful of household items and your foot, how would you do it?

There’s a solution so simple, so elegant, that we can only sum up our feelings about it in haiku:

Farewell, cruel tripod.
I’ll steady my camera
with washers and string.

Serenity now.

$1 String Tripod

$1 String Tripod How-to Video

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