[Swisstony10]

I use a small (cheap) lightweight tripod, which sits nicely on the bottom of my camera rucksack hanging from a couple of straps. When I'm on walkabout, the camera hangs from some straps which attach to the shoulder straps of the rucksack, thus distributing all the weight evenly instead of having it across the back of my neck.

I can fairly quickly whip the bag off and unhitch the tripod when I want to use it, and if I think I'm going to use it for a while, I'll collapse the tripod between shots and carry it around with the camera still attached for shortish periods of time, before stowing it back on the bottom of the rucksack.

I need to get a sturdier and heavier tripod though, and when I do, I'll probably either carry on using the lightweight tripod, or relegate that to an indoor flash stand, and use the monopod, which is always nice and handy...