Me and my friend spotted a small camera shop inside Giant Penang while we were looking for something to eat for our dinner. Since she was looking for a small table tripod to be used with her Canon IXUS, we went to ask around. We were expecting any mini tripod which we will find will cost us around the range of RM30 to RM60. Instead, we found this for RM10. Even when we were just looking around at first dug into our wallets just to play around with this thing.

Keep Mini Tripod TR-0200.

My friend was kind enough to lend me the tripod to see if it was suitable with my Canon PowerShot A550 since I told her I might need one as well.

Well, the tripod is made out of plastic and it was very light. The paint was low quality but the important thing was that it was stable enough and sturdy.

This tripod can hold my camera with 2 AA batteries straight but it wont keep itself straight when the camera was tilted. So, it’s mostly only good for taking normal pictures with my heavier camera.

In fact, it’s good enough with a more smaller and lighter IXUS or a small Sony digital camera. When taking group pictures with friends, you can attach the camera to this tripod and place it on a table.

You must be wondering why don’t just place the camera directly on the table. Actually, the table is fine for most situation when you clear it of all the mess after a party. Also, you can not angle the camera properly with just a table. So this RM10 investment is good just for that.

Okay, let me show a few examples.

This is a clear picture taken using macro mode. To keep the camera sturdy enough, I had to either look for suitable boxes or hold on to something tall enough to position my camera. The result is having to see my own reflection on the shiny part of the tripod. Not very nice. It could be slightly better when you have a tripod which could be easier to ignore.

On the other hand, with the camera attached to the tripod, I can position my camera just beside my LCD camera for a great angle which would be hard trying to balance the camera with boxes or pencils. You can click on the pictures to load the bigger version of the picture.