Tripod for photographic devices

A tripod system comprising:

• a fixed hub subsystem;
• three or more telescoping, extendable and retractable legs;
• three or more hub-to-leg connecting fixtures;
• a movable, tubular, rod subsystem;
• three or more leg-to-rod connecting subsystems;
• three or more sliding leg connecting subsystems;
• a photographic-device-supporting platform subsystem;
• a fixed leg-to-rod connecting base subsystem;
• wherein the hub-to-leg connecting fixtures comprise hinged joints enabling the legs to rotate in a plane perpendicular to the orientation of the fixed hub;
• wherein the fixed hub system comprises a central aperture through which the movable, tubular, rod subsystem may move in a direction perpendicular to the orientation of the fixed hub;
• wherein the central aperture and the movable, tubular, rod system have complementary polygonal profiles;
• wherein each of the sliding leg connecting subsystems are operative to slide firmly along each leg and parallel to each leg's axis;
• wherein the photographic-device-supporting platform subsystem is mounted on one end of the movable tubular rod subsystem;
• and
• wherein the fixed leg-to-rod connecting subsystem is mounted on the opposite end of the movable, tubular, rod subsystem.