Because of my passion to shoot butterlies I needed mobile monopod for macro photography. Unfortunately I could not find good one. That' why I builded and tested few prototypes, made from standard aluminium profiles and from specific carbon profiles. For the last one I even got a patent…
The advantages of my design are: low weight (due to compact design and materials), fast adjustment of height (<1sec), fast adjustment of angle (<1 sec), fast attachment/disattachment to camera (<1sec), possibility to stay alone as a tripod (due to additional compact legs). I can watch through the viewfinder and change position of camera same time. Or use it as a tripod if necessary. Of course I have standard tripod but this device is always attached to camera's bag because it has 250gr only.
Some illustrating videos are below.