Patent ID: 8496574

Claim:
A selectively positionable camera assembly for use in connection with a guide tube assembly having a guide tube handle portion and at least one guide tube therein, said camera assembly comprising: an elongated flexible camera portion sized to operably extend through one of the at least one guide tubes of the guide tube assembly; a camera handle operably coupled to said elongated flexible camera portion and being movably supported by at least a portion of the guide tube handle portion; and a retainer on at least one of said portion of said guide tube handle and said camera handle for releasably retaining said camera handle in a first orientation and in a second orientation relative to said portion of said guide tube handle, wherein said camera handle is released from said first orientation, transitioned to said second orientation, and retained in said second orientation by moving at least one of said camera handle and said portion of said guide tube handle relative to said other one of said camera handle and said portion of said guide tube handle.