Manfrotto 685B Monopod

Monopods get no respect. After all, they only have a single leg to stand on.
I've owned and used a few over the years but other than for supporting very long lenses (and then mostly in the days prior to Image Stabilization) I haven't had much need for one.
Recently though I have been working with several of the most recent pocket digicams and have foundsome of them, especially theCanon G10, to produce extremely good quality results, especially when their size, weight and cost are considered. But, and its a bigbut, this is only true when used at their lowest (native) ISO – in the case of the Canon G10, ISO 80 and 100.
Most of the time when outdoors this isn't an issue. But when doing landscape and nature photography light conditions are rarely optimal, and indeed the best light is often difficult light – at least from a hand-held exposure point of view.
With a DSLR I'll use a tripod more often than not, and with a medium format rig almost all of the time when shooting land...