Simple tripod mount for smartphone

Wednesday 06 November 2013 at 08:50 am

I found I wanted to mount my smartphone to a tripod base to try some time-lapse photography (as you do).  There are some nice ones out there to buy, but I needed it there & then.  So I found an old plastic thing - I don't even know where it came from, but I could have used anything similar, like a bottle cap for example.  Obviously it needs to be deep enough to give some support.  I cut 2 slots in the sides.

I had previously taken apart an old broken camera and kept the tripod mount doohickey, so I cut a square hole and glued it in.  I guess you could use a nut of the correct thread size & pitch (sorry, don't know what that is).

So now my phone sits nicely in either aspect on top of its tripod.  If I need more security I just add an elastic band!