Reno Frank wrote:
> Someone tell me how the camera can be held so still that way

It really isn't that difficult. Here's a camera mount for hiking poles:  Stickpic



REI has this: Xshot 2.0 Camera Extender



I have an UltraPod unit that can be strapped to a hiking pole. It's no longer available, but you can Google UltraPod 2 and find something similar.


When the camera is attached to a pole, and the pole is then held in a hand, it eliminates most camera wobble, and rotational jiggling is the only thing that is still possible, but that is only if the person holding the pole is shaking his wrist.

Here's a video from two years ago taken with a handheld olympus point-and-shoot attached to a hiking pole: