Highly adaptable, chuck in rucksack camera support

[roamingstudio]

Im looking for a highly adaptable, small chuck in the rucksack camera support... but sufficient to hold a longish

lens (canon 100-400; 70-300) with a decent body (e.g. 50D) rock solid...

 

I currently have a gitzo 2530 + RRS plates and ball heads (acratech) for going hiking and such like... and love

it. However sometimes I feel need to have something much smaller. I did invest in a gorillapod SLR, and used it a

lot this autumn. However I find it is just not stable enough; or was a real pain to get set up; it would

definitely need a ball head for helping with alignment; and then total weight with long lens was causing a lot of

vibration (MLU was required).

 

So does anyone know of anything else which might be suitable; or other recommendations? I often like getting low;

so the RRS small tripod could be nice. However sometimes it would be nice to hang it off things (e.g. Balcony /

bridge railings) or in other strange places. At work Ive used Baitella (Fisso

http://www.baitella.ch/en/medizin.html) lockable arms for holding things steady; generally the G13 can withstand

1->10Nm torques...

 

Creative solutions are welcome; and if necessary I would create my own (in new year).

 

Thanks,

 

Marc

[roamingstudio]

And adding one idea... an off axis ball head mounted onto a large G clamp? Or the Manfrotto Hydrostatic arms (similar to Baitella) 823 with a super clamp?...

[bennett_richards]

GorillaPod ZOOM SLR. Supports up to 6 pounds.

[roamingstudio]

Bennett; actually it is the SLR Zoom Gorillapod version I use (Zoom was missing on the first post). I just found it really awkward for locking in position etc. Perhaps with a BH-40 or BH25 (RRS). However im looking for creative...