no tripod needed! [Cheap image stabilizer]

[jljones]

what a load of tosh. All very well if you are looking at slowish shutter speeds but I can hand hold without support to a 1/15th on some cameras without shake and blur. IMHO pointless and useless. Better to spend time learning the techniques that reduce camera shake, like gently taking in a breath and then holding, keeping elbows in etc etc.
The whole point of a tripod is to take long exposures that are steady and useable - anything up to minutes and even hours. If those are the kind of pictures you want, then there's no substitute for a tripod and a solid head.

I can't think of any situation in the last 20 years where I'd have used this. Sorry, and I know I'm pouring cold water on this but somebody had to.