What's This?

[A-37]

Found this in an old camera bag and I can't ID it. No mfg info.

Hard rubber with threaded aluminum.

Maybe it has nothing to do with photography and was just in the bag.

Back in the bag in the attic. Can't seem to discard it.

 

[soFlaNative]

Got me. If it wasn't for the outside threads I'd figure
it attached to the pivot of a camera base on a tripod.

 

[growr]

Its a cylinder for a single shot?
Randy

 

[M29since14]

Presume it carries no manufacturer's name or logo of any sort? My experience with photo equipment goes back to the early 70s. I don't recognize it, but someone here will, and I'll be watching.

 

[LittleCooner]

Could this be some kind of "super short" mono stick to screw into the tripod female threads in the bottom of the camera? I could see it would help hold the camera with thumb and forefinger if it could be screwed into the bottom of a camera at the proper tripod adapter. just a wild guess.

 

[ExRanger714]

How long is the lanyard?

 

[DeathGrip]

I remember the first time I saw one.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Could this be some kind of "super short" mono stick to screw into the tripod female threads in the bottom of the camera? I could see it would help hold the camera with thumb and forefinger if it could be screwed into the bottom of a camera at the proper tripod adapter. just a wild guess.

The threads look wrong for that. It would be smaller in diameter as well.

 

[jlrhiner]

Lay it down and slowly back away..........

 

[MRB1]

It's been over a week, and I'm still stumped!! End of a flashlight maybe ?

 

[Marshwheeling]

It is threaded on the inside too. The end of the knob looks like a separate pice. Does it rotate relative to the rest?

 

[hostler]

At some point in my life I had one of those but I can't recall when or why.

 

[norm]

top off of walking stick ?

 

[Salty RI]

Looks like one of those things people keep in a camera bag but dont know what it is.

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[Absalom]

Given the small size, compared to the quarter, I would suspect the whole black part is there simply to facilitate screwing the thing into a threaded receiving "port", and the purpose is a detachable lanyard, maybe for some photographic accessory.

 

[Abbynormal]

I think it may be the bulb for a remote shutter release. You squeeze the bulb, the air pressure passes through a tube into a fitting with a spring loaded pin that screwed onto the camera's shutter release. When you squeezed the bulb, air passed thru the line into a fitting that made the camera to take a picture.

 

[hostler]

flashlight tail cap?
Pretty sure that's what we're looking at here, not sure what brand yet.

 

[carpriver]

its a thingamajig that screws into a thingamabob.I think it closes the connutin value on the backsplash.

 

[Rastoff]

Camera accessories are second only to golf accessories in volume and variety.

This looks like it belongs on a tripod. I would guess that it's some handle end, but the outside threads have me baffled.

 

[Salty RI]

I think it may be the bulb for a remote shutter release. You squeeze the bulb, the air pressure passes through a tube into a fitting with a spring loaded pin that screwed onto the camera's shutter release. When you squeezed the bulb, air passed thru the line into a fitting that made the camera to take a picture.

I think your right.

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