If you trot on down to the local hardware store, and ask for 1/4-20 nuts,
they can be super- glued onto any thing you make, and voila , you have a
tripod socket for about 20 -25 cents apiece ............
Yes, that is how I adapted the Full-Vue that I had. I like a flat
bottom surface on my cameras, so I counterset the nut in square of
ABS plastic. Worked great, but I've found other equally inexpensive
cameras for conversion to pinhole use that already have tripod
mounts. The major drawback of the Full-Vue for me was that time
exposure requires you to hold down the shutter release during
exposure and instant exposure is a single speed.
Tom
I took a 2" x 2" piece of 3/8" pine I had lying around, drilled a
3/8" hole through it, pressed in a 1/4-20 T-Nut into the hole and
epoxied the whole thing to the bottom of the Full-View. The
advantage of doing it this way is you end up with a nice flat base
for your tripod head to mount up against.
-t
